Full text of "Soldier of Fortune Magazine"

See other formats

imenlca

66 330 *60009 6SI0S

292 urns #S009HT22ZN9/0052*
ii9ia-£ xxxxxxxxx *enraqqxqt

AUGUST 1999 6 48493

Kacflnlk,

0 09128 48493 8 ""

CAN. $5,75 UK £2.60 U.S.S4-95

Prizren

□ 12 Issues for $29.95 SAVE $30 Off Newsstand

□ 24 Issues for $46.80 SAVE $72 Off Newsstand

GIVEN BY:

NAME:

ADDRESS

CITY/STATE:

(U.S. & Canada Only)

B262XI

ZIP/COUNTRY:

SEND TO:

NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY/STATE:

ZIP/COUNTRY:

m S TO USE MG/VISA CA111-800-877-5207

INTERNATIONAL 1-815-734-4151 or FAX 1-303-444-5617

Please Check One: O Payment Enclosed Q Bill Me

U.S. Funds Only. Canada add SlO/yr.

(Includes GST BN 12847 6249 HT).

Other Countries Add $21 fyr.

Only one manufacturer offers Total Titanium.™

*Joke * cylinder, barrel and sidfeplate are drop hammer forged_

Zhl SS&hVZ C ^¥ r from l he hi 8“7 corrosion resistant 8
light weight material stronger than steel.

T r TA NiUM

Your First Choice for
Off-Duty Carry and
Self-defense.

Total Titanium ™ means
stainless steel bore liners
in titanium barrels
rated +Pfor use
udth all types of
ammunition.

Total Titanium™
means full length
extraction
in a snub nosef

Model 445
5 shot .44 Special
just 19.8 ounces! 4\

Ribber Grips™
lessen felt recoil.

The difference is obvious.
Total Titanium™ revolvers
are available in Stealth Gray ™
bright or matte Spectrum Blue
or matte Spectrum Gold.™

Model 617
7 shot .357 Magnum
just 19.9 ounces!

Small and Compact Frame Total Titanium™ revolvers
are chambered for 6 different calibers!

a m W* A HI H Utmiiiucrcu iur O Ulliorcill bcMUd'S!

a^^KojwuLiliiy, Innovation,

Mark H. Milstein

CON TENTS

AUGUST I

lift

Troops of the 82nd Airborne
vision deploy near the Tirana
(Albania) Airport op 20 April 99.
Their mission? To providi security
forjhe (many betievej never-meant-
to-fight Apache cappers.
Story on page 36.

APACHE TEARS

by Mark H. Milstein

While dazed wiping refugees stream out ot Kosovg, AM 64 Ap*.dfe -rli rippers tool lUerr treeJs near Tirana What gives?
A paper-tiger mission for their gung-ho trraws — or another risky miscBlculalicm tty the Commander In Chief?

LESSONS FROM THE LAST TIME

Dale Andrade _

The myth of the invincible- guerrilla oj^p^tiven in the Balkans — where most i
Blitzkrieg chewed the partisans intcJT

at the conventional German

PRESS, LIES A NO UIDEO TAPE

Jarosiav Mecar A

The Serbs (hardly slouches at djapormasion) launch their PR
lurking about. A

The “Peter Arnetts” of the world, folks are still

FEATURES

COLUMNS

WHITE FEATHER

John Hogan

A final accolade to Gunny Carlos Hathcock, a genuine inspi¬
ration who was (and still is) so much more than a decorated
USMC sniper.

WINTER RANGE SHOOTOUT

Peter G. Kokalis

A “Dirty Half-Dozen” team of pistoleros returns to yesteryear
for some Cowboy Action Shooting.

^WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE „ BUT IT'S
NOT GONNA BE TODAY!"

Peter G. Kokalis

Thunder Ranch's take-no-POWs Urban Rifle Course is a har¬
rowing journey onto the turf of fast-moving prey, rapid tar¬
get acquisition and weapon-retention techniques.

GUN CONTROL DOESN'T WORK

Jews For The Preservation Of Firearms Ownership

A light-shedding interview with Dr. David Th. Schiller, Editor
of VISIER, which explains how to hold at bay the ever-pre¬
sent specters of classroom assassins.

PREPARING FOR Y2K

Pratt N. Whitney

Lose the paranoics and the Millennium greedmeisters. But
pay attention to these common-sense rules — or your 1
January 2000 could be an affair to forget.

Command Guidance 4

Flak 6

The Longest Yardage^

Slick Willie Watch 14

The Slick Slope Of Power

Adventure Quartermaster 16

New Leatherwood Sporter

Full AttlO 20

Sniper’s Companion

Bulletin Board 22

Arnett Sacked

l Was There 32

Enemy — And Friend

Omega Proving Ground 44

CZ75 Compact

Product Index 72

Advertisers' Index 74

Supply Depot 75

Classifieds 78

Sound 011 82

Clark and Vietnam II

nnhancwTlent by B. Syliir

When Doves Come Home lb Roost

4 4\ T ow let’s see here if I understand all
\l this correctly. President Clinton

1 1 has ordered our forces to engage
an entrenched, politically motivat¬
ed enemy, backed by the Russians, on their
ground, in a foreign civil war, in difficult ter¬
rain, with limited military objectives, bomb¬
ing restrictions, queasy allies, far across the
ocean, with uncertain goals, without prior
consultation with congress, the potential for
escalation, while limiting the forces at his
disposal, and the majority of Americans
opposed to or at least
uncertain about the value
of the action being worth
American lives.

“So just what was it
that he was opposed to in
Vietnam?”

— Lieutenant
General Tom Griffin,

U.S. Army (Ret.)

Telling words for all
to read. Perhaps this is all
part of Bill Clinton’s
master plan to gut the very military he
admitted to “loathing” while he was evad¬
ing the draft. The fact remains that
President Clinton has been more successful
in destroying the U.S. military than any
Russian general could ever hope.

Since he took office, Clinton has
reduced the active-duty rolls by 709,000
soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Our
reserve forces have been eroded by 293,000
troops. The U.S. Army has lost eight stand¬
ing divisions.

Our fixed-wing assets have been reduced
by 20 Air Force and Navy wings, for a total
loss of 2,000 combat aircraft and 232 strate¬
gic bombers. Our strategic forces have fared
no better. Thirteen strategic ballistic-missile
submarines with 3,114 nuclear warheads on
232 missiles; and 500 ICBMs with 1,950
warheads have become casualties in the
Clinton war on the military. Our naval fleets

have lost four aircraft carriers, 121 surface
combat ships and submarines, in addition to
their support bases, shipyards and logistical
assets needed to keep them sailing.

All told, the U.S. military might he has
cast into the dust bin of history represents a
world-class army in itself.

And let’s not discount the loss of morale
and prestige resulting from the misuse of
American military might in such strategi¬
cally unimportant places as Mogadishu,
Haiti, Bosnia, and miscellaneous camel
parks and sandtraps
where American security
interests were never seri¬
ously threatened.

Clinton has funded his
feel-good social programs
in the military at the
expense of bullets. Our
cartridge box of cruise
missiles, Tomahawks and
smart bombs that he has
used in orchestrating his
antiseptic illusions of war
are not being replaced.

Then there is the geopolitical calamity of
prostituting, and then abdicating, our leader¬
ship of NATO. At the very time NATO’s
credibility is needed to save allied, Serb and
Kosovar lives, Bill Clinton has reduced the
cold war instrument that defeated the Soviet
Union into a high-school debate team that
would barely earn a passing grade.

Clinton has handed the Russians an
FI 17 stealth fighter — and his Chinese
campaign benefactors, Pandora’s box. The
catastrophic hemorrhage of advanced tech¬
nology and nuclear secrets to the PRC has
set the stage for another 50-year Cold War.

The irony of ironies is, however, that at
the very time when Clinton wants to use
the armed forces under his command to
create a personal legacy other than as a
world-class reprobate, he is painfully dis¬
covering how hollow a military his poli¬
cies have created. ^

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE (USPS 525-810, ISSN 0145-6784), August 1999, Volume 24, Number 8, is published monthly by SOLDIER
OF FORTUNE Inc., 5735 Arapahoe Ave., Suite A-5, Boulder, CO 80303-1340. Periodicals Postage is paid at Boulder, CO and addition¬
al mailing offices. POSTM ASTER: Send address changes to SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, Subscription Department, POB 348, Mt Morris,
IL 61054-0348 or call 1-800-877-5207. U.S. and APO-FPO subscription rate for twelve monthly issues $29.95. Canada add $10.00/yr.
additional postage (includes GST tax registration business number: 12847 6249 RT). All other countries add $21.00 U.S. FUNDS ONLY.
Single Issue Price — U.S.: $4.95; United Kingdom: £2.60; Canada: $5.75. PRINTED IN THE USA.

CONTRIBUTORS: Manuscripts, photographs or drawings arc submitted at the contributor’s own risk. Material should be mailed to
Articles Editor, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, 5735 Arapahoe Ave,, Suite A-5, Boulder, CO 80303-1340, and cannot be returned unless
accompanied by sufficient postage. Any material accepted is subject to such revision as is necessary to meet the editorial requirements of
SOF. All manuscripts must be typed double-spaced. All photographs must be credited and be accurately identified. Payment will be made
at rates current at time of publication. Editorial office phone number is 303-449-3750.

mm of Foimmis

rvi A G A 2 I FM E

Robert K. Brown

EDITOR/PUBLISHER

MANAGING EDITDR
SENIOR EDITOR
TECHNICAL EDITOR
ASSISTANT EDITOR
DEPUTY EDITOR
PRODUCTION DIRECTOR
ART DIRECTOR

Dwight Swift
Don McLean
Peter G. Kokalis
Wayne Laugesen
Thomas D. Reisinger
Kathleen Allard
B. Bigler

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS
Chief Foreign Correspondent;

Mark H. Milstein
Senior Foreign Correspondents:

Dale B. Cooper • Peter Douglas
Chuck Fremont • Rob Krott
Dr. Tom Marks • Jack Thompson
Maj. Mike Williams • Mike Winchester

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Africa A1 Venter • Adventure Sports Robin Postcll
America Marty Kufus • Aviation Dana Drenkowski
Explosives/Demolitions John Donovan • Forensic Sciences
Richard L. Sherrow • Gulf War Veterans Affairs Bob
Newman • Gun Rights Paul Danish • Latin America Hugo
Harlenslein • Military History William Brooks —
Col. Alexander McColI (Ret.) — William H. Northacker
• Outdoor Affairs Galen Geer
Paramedic Operations Dr. John Peters • Skydiving Kitty
Baran • UDT/SEAL Larry Bailey • Unconventional
Operations Brig. Gen. Heinie Aderbolt, (Ret.)

— James P. Monaghan

Vietnam Veterans Affairs Col. Chuck Allen, (Ret.)

OMEGA GROUP, LTD

business manager Jenny Howard
bookkeeper Carole Hayden
consultant Zada Johnson
administrative assistant Janis Coalson

receptionist Barbara Loomas

ADVERTI SING
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Nick SouldeS

SOF WEB SITE: www.sofmag.com
E-MAIL: editor@sofmag.com

FOR EDITORIAL/AOVERTISING. CALL
303-449-3750
SUBSCRIPTION INQUIRIES CALL,

1 -B00-B77-5207

FOR LIST RENTAL, CALL STATLISTICS,
STACIE NESTER: 203-7 78-8700

* — -------JLL ..... „,X.. |

IN MEMORIAM

Craig Nunn — Art Director
Lance Motley — Foreign Correspondent .

Barry Sadler — Contributing Editor 1
Robert MacKenzie — Contributing Editor \
George Bacon — Foreign Correspondent jj

awn i

NOTICE: SOLDIER OF FORTUNE Magazine is a maga¬
zine of national and international distribution. There may be
products in the magazine of which sale, possession or inter¬
state transportation may be restricted, prohibited or subject
to special licensing requirements in your state or nation.
Purchasers should consult local law enforcement authori¬
ties in their area. All data in this publication, technical or oth¬
erwise, are based upon personal experience or individuals
using specific tools, products, equipment and components
under particular conditions and circumstances, some of
which may not be reported in the article and which Soldier
Of Fortune has not otherwise verified. Soldier Of Fortune,
its agents, officers and employees disclaim any responsibil¬
ity for all liability, injuries or damages.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

wimi's hinny hi hniiihhjy

COMBAT SHOOTING & SELF-DEFENSE PERSONAL FREEDOM

F1GH-TING

ADVANCED HGHTING
WITH FIREARMS
Concepts, Skills, and Tactics for
the Advanced Combat Shooter
with Andy Stanford
Learn the skills and tactics that define
today’s state of the art in combat
shooting, including shooting on the
move, weapon transitions, weapon
retention, vehicle defense, the
Dynamic Isosceles and the use of
firearms as impact weapons. Color,
approx. 75 min., VHS only.
#10010627 $ 39-95

GUNSfTE CLOSE
QUARTERS TACTICS 1

Leant the Gunsite Training Center's
weapon retention program from
close-combat specialist Steve Tarani.
Both contact and noncontact methods
of firearm retention are clearly shown,
including methods of using footwork,
pivoting, body angling, leverage and
momentum to defeat a variety of
handgun and shoulder weapon grabs.
Color, approx. 40 min., VHS only.
#10010692 $ 29-95

DESPERATE MEASURES
Unarmed Self-Defense against
Guns, Knives, and Clubs
by Michael Vassolo

In this brutally realistic manual, kenpo
karate 7th-degree black belt Michael
Vassolo teaches you all-out, last-resort
techniques to keep you alive against
seemingly Impossible odds. His straight¬
forward approach keeps moves simple
so when the time comes, you will be
calm, focused, and ready to strike with
deadly force. 5 1/2x8 1/2, softcover,
photos, 176 pp.

#10010676 $ 25.00

THE OFFICIAL SOVIET SVD MANUAL
Translated by Maj. James F.
Gebhaidt (ReL)

This manual was originally issued by the
Ministry of Defence for the snayperskaya
virrtovka Dragunova. The SVD was the first
Russian rifle designed specifically for snip¬
ing. Chapters include combat characteris¬
tics, basic components and their functioning
during firing, assembly and disassembly,
stoppages and how to coned, zeroing and
more. 81/2 x 11, softcover, Illus., 112 pp.
#10010668 $ 15.00

PRIVACY FOR SALE

How Big Brother and Others Are Selling
Your Private Secrets for Profit
by Michael Chesbro

What legal rights do Americans still have to protect their
endangered privacy? This comprehensive examination
explains federal laws and court decisions and shows you the
best ways to keep privacy profiteers from collecting arid sell¬
ing details of your private life. 51/2x8 1/2, softcover,
184 pn #10010656 $20.00

FINANCIAL FREEDDM NOW
How to Work Less and Live More
by Max Edison

Read this book today and save yourself thousands of
dollars down the road! Your bank, insurance company,
credit card issuer and other financial big boys are steal¬
ing your hard-earned money through hidden fees and
high interest rates. Learn how to recognize and avoid
their scams, maximize your savings when dealing with
them and get out of debt forever. 51/2x8 1/2, soft-
cover, 104pp. #10010684 $ 15.00

THE INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE
Secrets of Clandestine Travel Overseas
by Kenn Abaygo

You can remain secure and anonymous in your international
journeys. Kenn Abaygo tells how lo cross borders overfly and
covertly; leave the U.S. undetected; travel low-profile in
Europe, Asia, Africa and the islands; live and work overseas;
secure foreign citizenship; and go deep underground. For aca¬
demic study onfy. 51/2x81/2, softcover, photos, 152 pp.
#10010643 $ 17.00

Same ai Yam I'm allies

Revenge

Encyclopedia

THE MODERN

IDENTITY

CHANGER

THE INVISIBLE
ADVANTAGE
A Step-by-Step Guide to
Making Ghillle Suits and Custom
Camouflage Accessories
with Tom Forbes

For professionals who need the ultimate in
camouflage, there is only one choice; the
ghillle suit In this unique video, ghillle suit
craftsman Tom Forbes teaches you how to
make four different types of ghillle suit and a
variety of camouflage accessories for a frac¬
tion of the cost of expansive commercial ver¬
sions. Color, approx. 60 min., VHS only.
#10009953 329.95

THE REVENGE ENCYCLOPEDIA

This is the mother of all revenge books!
You’d have to buy more than 25 books to
get all the wit and wisdom contained in this
compilation from the best of Paladin's
revenge books. Don’t be fooled by cheap
imitators that claim to know how to get
even. Paladin Is still your revenge source
when you need to even the score with nosy
neighbors, bungling bureaucrats, snarly
clerks or other pests. For entertainment pur¬
poses only. 8 1/2 x 11, softcover, 120 pp,
#10001675 $ 20.00

DO-IT-YOURSELF MEDICINE
How to Find and Use the Most Effective
Antibiotics, Painkillers, Anesthetics, and
Other Miracle Drugs... Without Costly
Doctors’ Prescriptions or Hospitals
by Ragnar Benson

Ragnar gives you precise instructions for
securing and using the very latest drugs
and supplies from mail order suppliers, ani¬
mal health centers, military dispensaries
foreign pharmacies, and other unusual
sources. 5 1/2x8 1/2. softcover, photos,
illus., 128 pp.

#10068266 $20.00

THE WHOLE SPY CATALOG
by Lee Lapin

The Whole Spy Catalog shows you exact¬
ly how to hire an ex-KGB agent, order a
photo of anyplace on earth anytime during
the last 20 years, get an instant background
check on anyone, open a door from 100
feet away, subscribe to an in-house FBI
newsletter, order and install the latest elec¬
tronic surveillance gear and many more
tricks to trace, track, survell and investigate
anyone or anything. 8 1/2x11, softcover,
photos, illus., 448 pp.

#10005536 $ 44.95

How If Create
* Vr identity
for PrU’Jty and
I’ermtul
freedom

THE MODERN IDENTITY CHANGER
How to Create a New Identity for
Privacy and Personal Freed am
by Sheldon Charrett

Finally, here is an all-new instruction book
on how to obtain a new identity, produce
supporting documenis for it and use it safe¬
ty in today’s society. Leam how to get Social
Security numbers, driver’s licenses and
more. For academic study only. 5 1/2x8
1/2, softcover, illus., 152 pp.

#10008712 $ 20.00

CREDIT CARD ORDERS CALL TOLL FREE 1-800 392 2400, USA AND CANADA

CALL 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK. SEND FOR A FREE 80-PAGE CATALOG OF OVER 750 TITLES.

PALADIN PD

PALADIN PRESS*

P.O. BOX 1307-9HS • BOULDER, CO 80306 • PHONE 303-443-7250 • FAX 303-442-8741 • E-MAIL SERVICE@PALADIN-PRESS.COM

PLEASE SEND ME THE FOLLOWING TITLES: RESPONSE CODE: 9HS

IMG SUMMER DISCOUNT

Find a. sJJSWy^
pie of^ladil
living is (
now, whe

10% off. That’s money ii

and taKeMn a cou-
is. iFs suirnnertime, and the
‘aladin it’s\heap, too: right
ir of $60 or more, we'll take
youf pocket for a tall, cool one—

or better yet, another Paladin book! So treat yourself. As
a good Paladin customer, you deserve it! See the order
form and act now to take advantage of this hot deal!

Retail orders only, please. Offer expires August 31,1999.

VIDEOTAPES ARE NONRETURNABLE. DEFECTIVE TAPES WILL BE REPLACED,

□ visa □ mastercard □ discover

□ CHECK/MONEY ORDER

j CARD#

FXP.

! ITEM#

TITLE

| ITEM#

TITLE

I NAME

(Mtorfi adcMonflt tfmt 1 rwwaatf

SUBTOTAL

SUMMER DISCOUNT

! ADDRESS

10% OFF 160“ OH MORE. RETAIL CUSTOMERS ONLY.

1 CITY

POSTAGE & HANDLING

$5.00

! STATE

ZIP

— PLEASE ALLOW 2-4 WEEKS FOR DELIVERY

TOTAL _

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE • DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED ‘ VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.PALADIN-PRESS.COM

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Hie Longest Yardage

I respectfully request the details about
the gentleman who holds the longest con¬
firmed kill. I remember something about
5,000 yards. I have a shipmate that I was
talking to about it, he said I was nuts! He
being a former Marine and me being former
Navy means he’s always right. If you have
any info about this please email me at mike-
mott@bellsouth.net.

Michael A. Mott

See page 40 for a story on the record
holder ; and he was indeed a gentleman:
Carlos Hathcock's 2,500-yard confirmed
kill is the record as far as we know. Since
Carlos shot him twice, if you have anything
riding on this wager ; you might get your
Leatherneck buddy to buy off on the fact that
2,500 x 2 is 5,000 yards. The truly amazing
shot of the last century was on 29 June J875

at Adobe Walls, Texas, when Billy Dixon
(MOH) made a spectacular 1 f 38-yard shot
with a black-powder round and iron sights.
There have also been spectacular precision
shots fired with big guns, but as far as we
know Hathcock’s shot with a Ma Deuce
stands as the record for small arms.

Record for Confirmed Friends

I was saddened to learn of the death of
“Gunny” Carlos Hathcock. He was a true
American hero. At least the pain and suffer¬
ing that had been plaguing him for so many
years is finally over.

I met the man only once, at a shooting
match, but was truly honored. When I asked
him sheepishly for his autograph, his
response was, “how big an ‘X’ do you want?”
Gunny was, by then, confined to a wheel¬
chair. Nonetheless, the cordial hero wrote his
entire name, even though his assistant told
him to keep it short with “CH” or “Carlos.” I

stayed for a few minutes, as I was full of ques¬
tions. He answered every last one.

When I got home I wrote him a thank-
you note — with a few more questions!
Would you believe Gunny dictated a
response letter to his wife and sent it to me?
A true champion in my book. I actually felt
guilty for putting him through all that!

It is not often that we are in the presence
of greatness. That possibility has been great¬
ly reduced with the passing of Hathcock.
Tliough he had 93 confirmed kills, he had
thousands of confirmed friends and fans. He
will be missed.

B. Davis

UKed-Up Gun Laws

Congratulations on an excellent maga¬
zine, keep on fighting for the right to bear

Continued on page 10

PILOTS UUARfZ
CHR0N0 E230.00

5AS W:~HprnrU :vnt>ri
tfTidprMl gQbsrde^n

senum* esaao

Para smacks and combid
■sfflMkJ qylcilabk.

1959 pollen Offlien
£90.m A press stud
Frtstfcefe and |ump Hap,
wwl llnad collar, wwl cuffs

BRITISH ISSUE NAVIGATORS (dated)
£99.00

General Service (non date) £85.00

R.M. SPECIAL
BOAT SERVICES
30GM W/P £250.00

PICE Rucksack 125Hr
£ 170.00

Also avail. Soldier 2000
patrol pack £75.00

Soldier '95 PLCE DPM Tactical
Assualt Vest £ 125.00 - All types
of webbing stocked.

S ak Merlin Softie 3
ig Bag - 2 seasan,
very’ popular with British
forces £ 59.99

Suppliers to the military

0 Swiss made
0 Backed by 2 year warranty
0 Tritium luminous
0 9 models to choose from

0 Worldwide Sales Silvermans Ltd.

0 Highly accurate Quartz or

17 Jewel mechanical movements

Goretex Boot
liners

British Army
Issue, designed
to fit any boot
for 100%
waterproof.
Great Value
£ 20.00

Pro Boot £115
Latest army Issue,
^ waterproof,
insulated
& very

.■JP* lightweight

PILOTS MECHANICAL
CHRONO £350.00

SILVERMANS LTD

F0jc:O171 791 0008
Email: SOF @m itita ry.Co -uk

prices su bject to current cat
please check - Air Mail P&P czq.od

phone, fax or email for free cat quoting SOF

2 Harford Street, Mile End
London El 4PS
England

over 50 years of service to the services

in te rnet :w ww. mil ita ry.co.u k

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE X AUGUST 1999

Warning: Not recommended for people under the age of 18
Special Free Report

Any martial arts or military gurus want to make the same offer?

Get My FREE Report On Lethal Fighting—And I
Guarantee For The Rest Of Your Life You won’t
Lose Using My System. And I Put It In Writing !

This man had 3 high-ranking black belts and over 300 street-fights in 20 years, yet 15 minutes of this
undefeatable system he knew Jerry’s guarantee was for real Let him tell his story.

L et me tell you buddy, when you have a little age on
your butt and there are four Gang-Bangers shoving
you around and making rude gestures at your wife,
you want to act Look, I didn’t care about getting pushed
but if they touched my wife I was in the game. Only this is
no game. There’s four scumbags with weapons moving all
around me. I can take one out with a kick. But by the time
my foot comes down, two of them will stab me in the back.
If I body-tackle the biggest and grapple him down to choke
him out, the other 3 will just kick my head off. Or the guy
with the gun will shoot my knee-cap off and I will be help¬
less as they rape my wife.

Wake Up! Street-Fighting Skills
Aren’t Enough!!!

You better wake up out there, this is the real world. Not
even my street-fighting told me how to handle this. I was
lucky they weren’t out for blood. They just wanted to
intimidate me. I was damn angry. Not at what happened.
Hell, my ego wasn’t the deal. Staying alive was! I just real¬
ized that I spent $5,000-7,000 hard-earned dollars (not to
mention the years) to learn what only works in a ring or a
cage with referees and men that think they can street-fight
Yeah, they pick up a chair or use a broken bottle or knife
but they never really know what they’re doing. Look, let’s
just stop here, if you’ve read this far you’re probably one
Tough SOB like me, if you’re not, stop reading this infor¬
mation. It’s not for the weak-willed who have to get drunk
to get up the guts to have a slap fight It’s for you real men
that want to know the TRUTH about lethal fighting skills.

I knew that after 5 minutes of watching Jerry Peterson’s
lethal SCARS® system he was nothing short of revolution¬
ary. He’ll change your mind about power and fear. I don’t
know if you believe in a God but Jerry must be talking to
him. There’s just no other answer to how he solves com¬
plex fighting problems. Jerry says, “It’s in the math but it
doesn’t hurt to have God on your side.” Don’t make the
mistake I did in ’93, the first time I read about this system,
“Dunking how could it be true?’

This Guy Is “Nothing But Hype”

Wrong, the documentation is there. The government
backs it up. He’s taught, developed and standardized com¬
bat schools for the SEALS and other Special Operations
Forces not just in the US but also with NATO groups.

Ask Yourself, “Can I Handle The Truth?”
If You Can. Then Here Is Real Credibility.
Jerry Peterson’s SCARS was demonstrated on a secure
military base, in true combat fashion, to no less than the US
Secretary of Defense, the leading 4 Star General, plus the
Secretary of the Navy and powerful Congressional
Leaders. They all watched in total amazement as the
SEAL’S executed fighting skills never before seen,
absolutely flawless on every combat action they took using
guns, knives, full gear, single and multi-fighting and most
impressively their bare hands. SCARS never failed them
and it will never fail YOU!!!

If That Doesn’t
Blow Your Mind This Will

You can bet your life on this man’s credibility, 30,000
other professional men have. You can’t waste one more day
learning a sport system that has counters to every move.
With SCARS you*re undefeatable! Look, do you think
Jerry could have achieved his renown credibility if the
secret SCARS science of lethal combat could be countered.
Absolutely not! The fact is, Jerry Peterson is the one civil¬
ian in the history of the USA to have accomplished such
professional credibility. I challenge you to find one individ¬
ual that has ever gotten their fighting system to be reviewed
by such powerful leaders at the same time. Of course, to
make it more unfair, also get the official stamp of approval
for implementing their system as required training for the
US military. Want to check this out? Here is just one of the
official course numbers K-431-0096, check it out with the
Navy. I did, boy was I impressed when they gave me the
list of what this guy has done. It only took me six months.
Damned bureaucratic red tape!

Want More Credibility?

Jerry Peterson’s SCARS project is the only system ever
to pass all the combat requirements of the United States
Defense Department Then to go one better he raised that
standard and personally trained the elite Navy SEALS,
some made it, some didn’t But those that did today hold
the coveted SCARS/CFC qualification of subject matter
experts in the field of hand-to-hand and hand-to-weapon
combat. By the way, this qualification becomes part of their
official military records. In fact there would be no experts
if Jerry Peterson did not license the SCARS-Combat
Fighting Course to the Navy. Are you getting the picture?
Don’t wait as I did. Don’t be fooled by the follower’s...
You Know The ‘Little Men’

Ever since 1993, self-proclaimed military ‘gurus’ and
some street-fighters have been following Jerry making
clever claims, if you read between the lines there’s nothing
but ambiguous claims and self-given titles. Have you
noticed nobody produces any official paperwork?

Jerry Peterson Is Absolutely For Real

This is what you’ll find out Don’t wait Let go of the
past and leam the science of Lethal Combat This is the
first and only original Navy SEAL System. YOUR LIFE
WELL DEPEND ON IT! Sorry, I’m jumping ahead let me
explain why the martial arts can’t and won’t get the official
documentation. First the system has to be universal to all
men. This means that 100 men go in. One-hundred men
come out 100% efficient in all aspects of CQB (close quar¬
ters battle). To prove that the government must test, and test
SCARS they did, for over five years in real field condi¬
tions, on all terrains, including water with real weapons and
in real conflicts. I’m not going to get into all the govern¬
ment testing, that will take forever. Plus there are some we
can’t talk about. But in all those years SCARS never failed
EVER!! And that’s why it’s still the standard.

In Fact SCARS Set “New Standards”... for

hand to hand, knife fighting, rifle combat, and much more.
SCARS is also taking the Law Enforcement community by

storm. The summer
Olympics Special Security
team was required to take
our IQS-1 Series just to
qualify to get on the team
and YOU can have that
same knowledge and train¬
ing. This is your once-in-
a-lifetime opportunity to
become undefeatable
(with or without a
weapon) with the SCARS
Professional Fighting
System. Why?

Because Your Life Is Worth Saving
SCARS will not fail you. That’s why the US Navy
SEAL’S, government agents and law enforcement agencies
throughout the world are using this easily learned, but lethal,
system to save lives. You will know it works after seeing
Jerry’s powerful unbelievably easy to leam video tapes.
Look, you’ll receive more knowledge in one hour from Jerry
Peterson’s videos on fighting than two decades of so-called
‘Secret’ Martial Arts. Thanks to Jerry’s revolutionary train¬
ing method of Gestalt, it won’t take you years, months,
weeks, or days, in just a few short hours of watching you
will easily handle any bad guy that comes your way!!! I
can’t tell you the ‘god-like’ power you get from the truth of
this system!

I’m Telling You SCARS Is So Easy And So
Devastating, It’s ‘Embarrassing’.

You will resist at first You will say bullsh-t! Then you
start recalling your real fights on the street. Punches and
kicks you have done. You try what-if-ing everything he says.
Why? Because he is stripping you of the lies you based your
manhood on, he is telling you and showing the cold logic of
the fight, ripping apart the lie of defensive action and replac¬
ing it with brutal science of combat. Be prepared, it’s brutal.
The foundation of SCARS is solely mathematical, it follows
that the results are absolute, and not emotionally motivated.
To a layman it will seem to be quite brutal. However this is
pure science of human movement for the purpose of protect¬
ing your life. Since it is science, every move in every lesson
seamlessly adapts to all modem and ancient weapons. You
never waste time learning useless punching and kicking or
grappling moves that DON’T work with weapons. With
Jerry’s system you can take the weapon out and you’re still
a lethal fighter. SEALS using SCARS have never been beat¬
en. Now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get Jerry’s—

Free Special Report To Receive The Same
Knowledge As The Most Feared Men On
Earth Navy SEALS! Just Call

1 - 800 - 827-1239

24-hours for a Free recorded message to get your Free
report International, call 602437-3143
Check our New Website out at www.scars.com and find out
how to become a Member to get free weekly lessons.

Jerry Peterson

AUGUST 1999 * SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Yea, though I wWl
the | Shadow of DeJt

IH Bl»taii< Drr^c 4!
pawi b lie ft u;ei 30 I

ion demands it,

When the mission demands it, When your life depends on it When the ob|<?ctive must be
secured at ail cosi, eounl us in, flhere are limes when your gear car&jwfal We know this
because we've been shot at ourselves. Our designers are cops. SWAT^guys, SEAL’S and
Marines, We know what comb® is tike, That's why we manufacture the finest nylon on earth
-holsters and vests, daypacksSmd g unstraps--all made with the absolute strongest materials
money can buy. All backed fey BfackHawk's Lifetime Guarantee. Featuring our exclusive

INDUSTRIES, INC. 1133 Executive Blwf, Chesapeake, VA 23320 www.Aackhawkmdusfrres.com

r lB IM telm: SldlEflKflfl [DT 1'B wU iJ-Zj

UJlifI PrOMTI. M CDIIDA M ffflrt-flKfcS
ETUiar klv fram aslM.

BLACK!

im ■vJiin 1 : i.«iini(ii!ti.il

lll'IiTii.T^iRliV ill

1 ' I' "T i i' ^'n 1 r 111

mnm

lTd TjJ I BfjTj]

! Orap teg itaii
uIsIps ^
s' i \k use i?Bi

h!> ■- -l.rljL

|Hr -

111' i

%pjm

» 11

ijoj.jJiJI 11

iiP: i?Kn r‘™"i IfillSI-n!ri* i

HE VALLEY

Tte Omega Crossdrauj lac-Uest (M aid
-iiiiuncsd LIU are tuio of ouer a doiin tilted
Cnrpi'fr.B jrjmijm quality DUttaifc uesls. (I
ISO'BWiiGi ft find out about ail ihe diIbe

EUkWs Paflrpl M\i Harness features
MM and rr£Eh btfitg for comfort and tattei
:fi«p pouch fils ail rates fi.us a knife and nifj

Cam-el Bak HydrationJpystems. Built with the Passion for Excellence tfcp
Bfac&Hawk the growing tactical nylon company in the world*

mor?, call for ^rej| info or the new ‘99 BlackHawk Cat alog jigH .
rng ojfer 400 of world's finest tactical nylon products!

See Your Healer of call NOW!!

Irn;:ml

Continued from page 6

arms. Here in the UK I have recently had
my 9mm semiauto pistol confiscated due
to the change in the gun laws; .22 pistols
are also illegal; in fact, the only firearms
legal to hold are full-bore bolt-action
rifles and .22 rifles in semi or bolt-action
form. However, many shooters have lost
heart and given up due to the law and left-
wing liberal public attitude promoted by
the press. Born in this country 35 years
ago, I always believed it was a free and
democratic society. How wrong I was.

In fact I think it’s about time to state a
few facts: Britain is no longer great, it is
run by incompetents and a vast majority
of its people live near the poverty line;
the images portrayed by the media of a
green and pleasant land are long gone and
probably only existed for a privileged
few. I am no longer proud to call myself
British.

Dale Symons

police departments have been affected by
USMC sniping doctrine, it’s a blessing.
We’ve been doing this long before any
police department, so the doctrine has
been tested and proven by both time and
combat. It’s a shame such misleading
information was printed for the sake of
trying to sell semiauto sniper rifles to a
community that has the best weapon of
all: a bolt action rifle.

Alex Popovic

8541 USMC

Since we don’t have an interest in
either a bolt-action or autoloading rifle
enterprise, we have to take mild umbrage
at your assertion that we are flogging
"misleading information ... for the sake of
trying to sell semiauto sniper rifles ... ”
Like the debate over wheel-guns vs.
autoloading handguns, this debate will no
doubt continue , although in most major
militaries except our own, the autoload¬
ing sniper rifle has come to the fore, for
the balance of advantages listed in the
article. We should note, however, particu-

pouir

I read your article on
militarization of the
police with mixed emo¬
tions. I have been a full¬
time sworn peace officer
for 12 plus years. Prior to
this I served eight years in the Marine
Corps. One of my current collateral duties
is that of Tactical Team leader. I should
have stopped reading the article at the first
bit of misinformation I found. I was
unaware the Federal Government owned
S ITU: The last time I checked it was a pri¬
vate enterprise owned and operated by
Lonsdale (he is another story, check his cre¬
dentials or lack of). I expected better
research from your magazine. I was sad¬
dened to see terms like “local yokel” and
“County Mountie” in a magazine which
claims to be pro-police.

Let me be the first to say I do not want
fire teams of 19-year-old PFCs patrolling
my streets. That is my job. I do take offense
with the idea that we are no longer caring

Your recent article
on semiauto sniping
couldn’t have been fur¬
ther from the truth, it
isn’t unfortunate that

larly in the field of sniping, that the man
and his training and the accuracy poten¬
tial of his weapon are more important
than whether the weapon reloads without
the operator having to jack in another
round. I guess we ’ll have to agree to dis¬
agree. So, do you own stock in a bolt-
action rifle company?

professionals. The mission of every tactical
team is the same: to save lives. Yes, we
dress in black BDUs. Yes, we carry auto¬
matic weapons. Yes, we practice tactics
used by military hostage-rescue teams.
Why? Because they work, and we want to
stay alive. If you check into it, you will find
that the training between the military and

Multiple Aperture Device (MAD) A2 Integrated Rear Iron Sight Front Flip Up Sight

SLiC Mount
Sling and Flashlight
Attachment

Scout F.I.R.E. Rail

CALL OR WRITE FOR OUR NEW BROCHURE OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR THE LATEST PRODUCT INFORMATION

Manufacturer of Fine Mounting Systems and
Professional Tactical Weapon Accessories

Visit Our Web Site
www.gggaz.com
Email us at
gggaz@aol.com

3602 East 42nd Stravenue
Tucson, Arizona 85713
Phone: 520-748-7167 Fax: 520-748-7583

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1 999

L.C. ON
WHITE T
BLACK i
PRINT ;

Qal]

F.F. ON

WHITE T
, BLACK
\ PRINT

UNITED SURVIVORS OF AMERICA

I~Se~|

SILVER JACKET LEFT CHEST
AND FULL BACK BLACK PRINT

BLACK JACKET LEFT CHEST
AND FULL BACK WHITE PRINT

■£k

SURVIVOR

BLACK JACKET LEFT CHEST
AND FULL BACK WHITE PfflMT

T-SHIRTS

ADULT SIZES

Printed on Front. Made in U.S.A.

PRINTED AS MARKED
Left chest = LC Full Front = FF

ADULT Sizes S-XL, add $ 2.00 for XXL
100% Cotton Preshrunk Heavyweight

Short Sleeve (SS) <14»

lot Sleeve (IS) W

yVOft,'

l S %

S.O.S. is owned by a disabled
EX-SPECIAL FORCES survivor
promoting positive self esteem
in the handicapped world.

v- / ISTLJ'V N -L__

—* 3 SS OR LS.

CHOOSE 1 MORE^;

/ ss JEC JEC

11 AD

l lAS l

F.F. ON

L.C. ON

JL rnffTfltT TT\TJ1
jrix -5- x v 1 ivij

BLACK JACKET LEFT CHEST
AND FULL BACK WHITE PRINT

COMBAT

BLACK JACKET LEFT CHEST
AND FULL BACK WHITE PRINT

Shi

BLACK JACKET LEFT CHEST
AND FULL BACK WHITE PRINT

SURVIVOR JACKETS

SATIN FINISH NYLON JACKET,FLANNEL LINED, KNIT CUFFS,
COLLAR & BOTTOM BAND, ZIPPER FRONT & TWO SLASH r
POCKETS. MADE IN U.S.A.

SIZES; M, L XL
ADD 5.00 FOR XXL, OR
XXXL ^

169 .

FULLBACK

PRINTED C
LEFT CHEST <
AND FULL BACK

BLACK JACKET LEFT CHEST
AND FULL BACK WHITE PRINT

GREAT FOR GIFTS

oml 800-958-8876

Have a credit card ready. We Accept VISA MC AMEX DISCOVER
Payable To5 M Check For Total+Shipping & Handling to S.O.S. California residents only; add 7,75% sales tax

p n Ray Shipping & Handling If your order totals:

Carmichael, Ca 95609 J 25 00 or less — -£ 4 ' 98

miTcinif iic a. $ 25.01 to $ 50.00 _ $ 6.95

Double shipping & handling $ to $ 75.00- $ 8 - 95

charges. Mail official check $ 75.01 to $ 100.00 - $ 9.95

(money order) payable VS A funds Each additional $ 100.00 (or portion of) add $5.95

Allow 2 to 6 weeks for delivery - U.S. Priority Mail

SEND SA.S.E. FOR CATALOG OR GET IT WITH FIRST ORDER.
PRICESSUBJECTTOCHANGEMHOIJTNOTICE • SATISFACTION GUARANTEED • FIND IIS ON THE INTERNET WW.ISGNET.COMMS/

law enforcement goes both ways. SWAT
teams have been responsible for training
numerous members of the military. My
team has trained Marines and Army SF.

The bottom line is the police are still the
police and the military is still the military.
The line is not as blurry as the article makes
it seem. We may wear the same clothes and
use some of the same weapons and tactics
but we still have two distinct functions.

WESTDOG172@aol.com

Own And Carry

Where in the Second Amendment, or the
Constitution, for that matter, does it say any¬
thing about carrying a firearm openly or con¬
cealed? It plainly states “to keep and bear
arms,” meaning to own and carry. Because
there is no prohibition in the Constitution to
carry concealed, then it is permitted. Those
knotheads in DC just do not get it. Since
when does one need a license or permit to
exercise a constitutional right? If we told
those idiots that they had to get a permit to
speak their mind and had to wait five days for
approval and then only be permitted to do that
once a month, they would have a cow and
start screaming that it’s unconstitutional. But
without the Second Amendment, the other
nine are just academic, aren’t they?

Keep up the good work of informing the
public of the truth. I’ve been reading your

magazine since day one and there is no
finer source of information.

Thomas D. Klusty

Top Three Women of Century

The “ABC List of Women of the
Century” — Jane Fonda on the list? No big
surprise.

Pick any 100 widows of moms of men
KIA in America’s wars in this century, and
we’ll all know they rate higher than the cel¬
luloid talking heads that gratuitously dot
the ABC roll-call. When the insipid pro¬
gram airs on TV, we plan to just “tune out,”
to use a ’60s’ phrase.

I have a list of the top three women of
the century, and Janie ain’t on it: My wife,
my little girl, and my mom are.

My mother, while in her 50s, ventured
twice into north Laos during the war, when
I was a guerrilla adviser there. When some
shooting started and soldiers deserted their
posts near my hooch, she picked up a car¬
bine and a grenade, and guarded the
perimeter until I came barreling up in my
jeep. (Way to go. Mom!)

My wife carries a gun and defends her
country every day. She’s one of the quiet
heroines. You don’t hear about her in the
press, but she and her pals do more to pro¬
tect the rest of us than Jane or the current
crowd in the White House ever did.

My 10-year-old little girl reads a book
every night, and will do something incredi¬
ble for our future — I feel it in my bones.

Jane Fonda? Can’t hold a candle to
them. The ABC list includes fluff — not
real substance in all cases. Don’t sweat the
advertising. Write your own histories.

CDR Chip Beck, USNR (Ret.)

Colombian Kudos

I read your article
about Colombia in your
April issue and I think it
is very good. I am a first
lieutenant from the
Colombian Army and
right now I am working in a Ranger battal¬
ion helping out the training of the Rangers
and the LRRS soldiers. ... For me and my
Army it is very important to inform the
public about our activities and the war that
we are fighting, especially those who think
that the U.S. should not help the
Colombian Army with weapons and train¬
ing. As you mention in your article, it will
make a great difference in the war against
communists and drugs.

When the guerrillas in Colombia deal
with drugs, that makes them not only a threat
for Colombia but also for the whole world.

Via email X

USES AR TYPE MAGAZINES
CONVERTS TO CARBINE W/O TOOLS
GAS ADJUSTMENT KNOB
GAS OPERATED, PISTON DRIVEN
ROTATING BOLT

.223 REM

MADE IN THE USA
QUICK CHANGE BARREL
TWO STAGE TRIGGER
BOLT HOLD OPEN

m ROUND MAG NOT INCLUDED

SPECIFICATIONS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE

ROBINSON ARMAMENT CO.
2975 SOUTH 300 WEST
SALT LAKE CITY, UT 841 15

PHONE:

FAX:

EMAIL:

801-485-1012

801-484-4363

ZDF@ROBARM.COM

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.ROBARM.COM

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE * AUGUST 1999

The deadliest

weapon you

Setter keep it loaded

EVERYONE

130-f Elpclrpmc: Arts Jrjc. Command & COnqupr. WfcsIwWd IsL-udics mid E^rinjn c Aria Arc trdHianflttfkS ur
wj ilBtfad tr^ernaiKB ol ENacIrwic Ahe In r , io U 5, * nd or olhar tMounlri*a WeElwood Shidkra is *.n tzieciwnit Ada
LVimpiiny Die N' Lryja is .1 tnsdBrfiflrfc ol fsnlemiO Of Anricmifl, In::. NuitopiSg a\ Ai^iwipa Inc.

ww>u .nltilendo.cam Game and System -aokl separately

Brian Wunder

The Slick Slope of Power

With Clinton at the helm of a war in the Balkans — one with all
the makings of a classic American-style boondoggle of death and
destruction in the name of no clear objective — we should examine
closely the amount of power we’ve allowed presidents to have in
placing our troops in harms way. With a character like Clinton in
office — a draft dodger with no military experience, who has sur¬
rounded himself with advisers who have no military experience —
anything is possible.

In a previous Slick Willie Watch, we told you how a non-fiction

book by George Ste-
phanopoulos reveals
Clinton’s lack of depth
regarding foreign poli¬
cy matters. If you’ve
read that, proceed to a
new fiction book called
The Price of Power, by
James W. Huston.

A lawyer and for¬
mer Naval aviator,
Huston creates a tale in
which readers begin to
realize just how impor¬
tant Article I, Section 8
of the United States
Constitution really is.
It says “The Congress
shall have power ... To
declare War, grant Let¬
ters of Marque and Re¬
prisal, and make Rules
concerning Captures
on Land and Water.”

The book, a sequel
to Huston’s block¬
buster, Balance of Power, is the fictional account of Congress deal¬
ing with a peacenik president who court-martials an admiral for car¬
rying out a congressional order to attack a group of anti-American
terrorists. The admiral, tom between Congress and the president,
obeys a letter of Marque and Reprisal that orders him to attack.
Ultimately, Congress and the president come to a showdown in
impeachment hearings.

The plot is possible, Huston explains, only because the United
States, in real life, has usurped the constitutional provision for hav¬
ing Congress declare war. The book creates a situation in which it’s
truly unclear who has ultimate control over the military, Congress
or the president. Huston says the process of declaring war became
blurry after World War II, when the United States needed to control
hot spots without launching all-out wars.

The book, Huston explains, “is almost a situation opposite of
what we have now, but it raises some of the same questions. In my
book, you have a president who refuses to send troops when it’s of
vital interest to the United States to do so, instead of what we have
now, which is a president whose doctrine appears to be ‘If I don’t
like what you’re doing, for whatever reason. I’m going to beat you
up.’And he’s accountable to nobody.”

Huston argues the Founding Fathers wanted troops used only
after a declaration of war, which was to be made after serious delib¬
erations by a representative government, not by one man respond¬
ing to political whim.

“The difficulties we’ve had with recent military actions are
caused by the fact the American people are not behind these activi¬
ties,” Huston says. “They are in no way involved in the decision
making.”

Bombing or sending troops to Kosovo, Huston says, should have
been debated and decided by Congress because a matter of ideolo¬
gy is at stake. “We need to know whether human rights violations
alone are enough to endanger American soldiers, spend our military
budget, and expend the arsenal. If the answer is ‘yes,’ then I’d like
to know when that was decided. It has never historically been the
case in this country, so from all I can tell it’s a matter of policy
decided entirely by one man — Bill Clinton.”

Huston criticizes more than Clinton’s policy in Kosovo. He also
says the war is tactically stupid and already lost.

“We’ve already failed the objective, which was to keep
Kosovars in their homes,” Huston says. “And from the very begin¬
ning we sent the clear message that we think this is a tar baby, so
we’re going to have an air war, which means we’ll stand across the
street and throw rocks. All our bombs can do is intimidate
Milosevic, which is an ironic strategy, because the only thing he has
left is the fact he hasn’t buckled to intimidation by the U.S. and
NATO. The idea we can effect change with an air war alone is
screwy. I think Congress know that, but unfortunately Congress
doesn’t really have any say in matters of war.”

Again, The Price of Power deals directly with none of this. But
the author clearly understands both the political and tactical aspects
of war. He’s done his research and put together an extremely realis¬
tic story that should make every reader respect the intentions of our
founders regarding use of American military force. The whims of
Slick Willie — or the peacenik featured in Huston’s book — aren’t
what they had in mind. X

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

"C" What You've Been Missing!

From the first shot to
the last, get improved
shot speed and minimum
muzzle rise with little
or no loss of velocity.

IOCK

When speed counts as
much as accuracy...

nothing keeps you on target like
Clock's complete line of compensated
pistols. Available in full-size and compact
models - in five popular calibers - thesc
pistols have GT.OCK's revolutionary parallel
port compensation system. This innovative
integral compensation system not only reduces
muzzle flip and felt recoil, it also aids in quicker
second-shot target
acquisition. 1

©CLOCK, Inc, 1998

PERFECTION

Available at a CLOCK Stocking' Deafer near you.

New Leatherwood Sporler

A Leatherwood scope is still the only rifle scope that automati¬
cally corrects the center point of aim for range without the shooter
ever removing his eye from the target.

Until now, the ART system scope has been very expensive, and
confined to one caliber without removing and replacing cams — but
the second-generation Leatherwood Sporter™ uses a revolutionary
new mechanism (patent pending) that allows the user to ballistically
match the scope to the rifle’s specific ammunition by caliber, bullet
weight, style and manufacturer. This allows its use on virtually any
rifle from .17 Remington to .375 H&H Magnum, and this means that
point of aim will equal point of impact from less than 200 yards out
to more than 600 yards. The shooter will no longer need to estimate
range and adjust for “holdover,” as the scope adjusts for trajectory
automatically. It can be set up to range in either yards or meters.

This new Leatherwood
scope was developed for the
sporting world, but is bound
to find a place in the law
enforcement market, as the
Leatherwood Sporter™ is a
high-quality 3-9x40mm vari¬
able-power scope that uti¬
lizes four interconnected exterior rings. The rearmost ring is the
power ring, and it is connected to the magnification mechanism of
the scope. The next ring is the range ring, which indicates the range
in yards at which the scope is set at any time. Next is the caliber ring,
with which the shooter “dials in” the specifics of the ammunition
being used. The forward ring is the trajectory ring, that acts on the
base of the scope to automatically compensate for bullet drop.

For all its abilities, the Leatherwood Sporter™ is very user
friendly: The shooter simply looks up the bullet caliber/weight/style
and manufacturer on a supplied chart, then with a small screwdriver
he disengages the rings, sets the proper code from the chart and reen¬
gages and tightens the rings. As the shooter adjusts magnification,
the rings will turn together. Once the scope is zeroed at 200 yards, it
is ballistically matched to the ammunition. The scope easily can be
swapped from rifle to rifle and caliber to caliber with this simple
procedure.

The other key to the Leatherwood Sporter™ is the new
auto/range aiming reticle (see inset). The shooter increases or
decreases the magnification until the target is framed. The scope has
now set the distance and trajectory: the shooter places the crosshairs
on the desired point of impact, and shoots. Point of aim equals point
of impact — and the shooter never has to take his eyes off the tar¬

get. Even a novice shooter will be able to adjust and frame the tar¬
get in one smooth, fluid motion.

The scope can be mounted on any Weaver-style base without
regard to slot spacing. The 1-in. tube is nitrogen filled, shockproof
and waterproof; the optics are multi-coated and fog proof. At 12.25
inches long, the Leatherwood Sporter™ weighs 1.335 pounds
(21.36 ounces), and it comes with a lifetime guarantee against mate¬
rials and manufacturing defects.

Perhaps one of the best features of this new scope with proven
technology is a retail price of less than $300! Ask for it at your deal¬
er, or order direct from: Federal Arms (612-780-8780), Graf & Sons
(573-581-2266), Century International (802-524-5268), or William
J. Middleton (903-586-0430). Distributors contact Gregg Stroh-
meier via email: sales@leatherwoodoptics.com .

Dog Drink Device

Compared to what you’re likely to meet at an SOF hunting camp,
a good dog makes a better hunting partner. And like a good horse or
magazine editor, a dog will work until he drops in the traces with
nary a whimper — so it’s up to you to attend to his needs. Among
other things, that means water. You carry a canteen or one of those
new hotshot “hydration systems,” but Phideaux has to make do with
toilets if you have indoor plumbing, and mud puddles in the field.

What if you’re in the Sonoran desert chasing quail or dove? A
50-pound potlicker sleeping on the front porch requires a quart-and-
a-half of water a day, and chasing birds in the sun his requirements
rocket up to three times that. Even if you have no aversion to dog
slobber, and we perceive that most SOF readers would not, having
a dog drink from your canteen is a wasteful proposition, and you
may not have the water to waste. Even if it be a working dog as
opposed to a lap dog, a dog is designed to lap water, as from a pud¬
dle, stream or dish.

Now cometh
Paul Jones with a
pocketable dog
dish that will
hold a quart-and-
a-half, and fold
up to a round
bundle only 2-
3/4” in diameter
by a couple-inch¬
es thick, fitting
easily into hunt¬
ing vest or pocket
or pack. An inte¬
rior spring keeps
it folded or erect.

The exterior is
Oxford nylon, the
interior is coated
waterproof nylon. Called Hank’s Bowl™, the dish comes in 10 col¬
ors, including Advantage Camouflage®.

With the pup’s permission, those perverts who so do will find
that Hank’s Bowl™ also makes a decent folding basin for shaving in
the field, or for scooping up creek water for your radiator, etc. All
American-made, the dish retails for $17.95 for solid colors, $19.95
for cammo. It is available from Cabela’s (800-966-4166). For more
info contact Jones at P.O. Box 16, Gunnison, CO 81230; or phone:
877-641-1993; or on the Internet at www.hanksbowl.com . %

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

These CD’s can be read by every version of Windows. Mac and Unix versions are also included. All of these manuals
have been formatted into .pdf files, so they can be viewed by the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is included on these CD’s.
These programs can be run directly from the CD; there is no need to download the manuals to your hard disk to view
them. They can be sent to your printer, or copied to your computer for use in word processing, etc.

FM-200 (2CD Set) $19.95 *

2 CD set of 200 US Army field manuals for Air Traffic, Ammunition, Armor, Aviation, Engineering, Light Cavalry,
Medical, NBC, Operations, Plumbing and Pipefitting, Rigging Techniques, Security, Survival. Terrain Analysis,
Topographic Operations, Weapons and more.

FM-50G $14.95 *

Includes weapons field manuals, plus operational manuals for such weapons as SKS, MIGarand, MK19, AK-47, Sten,
Lee Enfield, M16, M14, MAC, M60, FN-FAL, P38, Model 1917 .30 Cal US Rifle, M24 Sniper Rifle, 90 mm Recoilless
Rifle, M9 Pistol, .45 Cal Pistol and more. A total of 50 manuals.

MEDICS $14.95 *

Includes FM8-230 Medical Specialist, FM8-36 Aidmans Medical Guide, and ST31_91B; the Special Forces Medical
Flandbook, FM21-11 First Aid for Soldiers, Combat Stress, $BC Protection, plus 23 other health and medical
related manuals.

SPEC OPS $14.95 *

Includes the Special Forces Guerrilla Warfare manuals, SP Qps, Recon Tactics, Sniper, Scout, and

Pathfinder manuals; Desert Ops, Jungle Ops, River Crossing,
Northern Ops, FM2U75 Combat Skills, FM21-76 Survival,
and the Ranger flandbook. A total of 33 manuals
on all aspects of Special Operations.

Call tolfl free to order

1 - 800 - 321-2974

Please visit our web page

We have
announced at

adverftsed/Please clieck our website

may also order by mail:

Military Media
7454 Lancaster Pike
Suite 321

Hockesssin, DE 19707

* Please add $5.00 shipping and handling to total order.

MasterCard and Visa welcome, e-mail: questions@military-media.com
Inquiries: 1-610-268-5077 Orders: 1-800-321-2974

Battle

Siegeint'ne Clouds

MMHI

■Ajhiiii *&*}&?

We give you the ■

rea/ story. Thrilling M

conquests and ■

brutal defeats. H B fl

Inspiring heroes ■■

and cunning

enemies. Brilliant

strategies and thwarted MB
missions. All the drama and passion
of combat unfolds with vivid details
and lucid insights. Whether you’re a
veteran, student or military enthusiast,
The Military Book Club® puts you
in the field. Sign up today!

FiMMNGTOTM

Iteinr Corps rjmfwtpii, 1965 BTS

0091 $24.95 5231+ $19.95 5199 $19.95x 2071 $18.95x 5264 $16.95x 0992 $17.95x 2220 $19.95x 5322 $19.95x 3897 $18.95x

fl * * *

Delta

MUMS

5090 $19.95x 0323 $19.95x 5330 $18.95x 5082 $29.95 3525 $18.95x 1289 $22.95 5157

7 REASONS TO JOIN NOW: 1. Joining is easy. Just choose 4 books for 98<t. Your bill (including shipping and handling) will come when mem¬
bership is confirmed. 2. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you’re not happy with your 4 books, return them within 10 days at our expense. Your membership will
be canceled; you’ll owe nothing. 3. Save up to 40% off publishers’ hardcover edition prices. Just pick at least 4 more books at our regular low Club prices dur¬
ing your membership. Take up to 2 years! Then you may resign any time. 4. Extra bonus! Take a 5th book now for $4.99, plus shipping and handling, and reduce
your membership agreement to only 3 books. 5. A FREE Club Magazine comes to you up to 17 times a year. Each reviews the Featured Book Selections plus dozens
of alternate books. Some are exclusive Club editions you won’t find anywhere else. Every book we offer is a high-quality, full-text edition, sometimes altered in size
to fit special presses. Look for up to 2 special issues a year with super selections and more discounts. 6. Ordering is risk free. Featured Book Selections are sent
to you automatically. To cancel—or order other books—simply send your Member Reply Form by mail or contact our Web site by the marked date. Shipping and
handling (plus sales tax, where applicable) is added to each order. You’ll always have 10 days to decide. If your Member Reply Form is late and unwanted books
arrive, please return them at our expense. 7. Easy ordering. As a member, you can also order books via our Web site: www.MiuTARYBooKCLUB.com F942

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

A SNIPER IN
THE ARIZONA

Zal Bsttilita, Sid Mirim
i»lte Afiisit Tirrituf, 1167

BA Army Uniforms
oi the Vietnam War

f with

membership

SNIPER

eou "«Rsw" R

Sbii^

WEAPONS

OF THE

CIVIL WAR

THE WORLD'S SNIPING
m RU LES mss

■iH REGALIA

$24.95x 4630+ $24.« 1818

MARONKO

OPTION DELTA

*5272++$24.00 4937 $24.95x 4812 $29.95 5249 $18.95x

Mr./Mrs.

Miss/Ms.

tf you select a book that I
counts as 2 choices, write I
the first 4 digits of the book |
number in one row of boxes |
and 9999 in the next ■

SAVE EVEN MORE! Send me this book now and (write book number)

reduce my commitment to 3 books. Bill me an -——-

added $4.99, plus shipping and handling. L_L_J_

(Books that count as 2 choices are not eligible.) ESQ03 9€

+ Softeover ++ Fiction * Explicit language ■

x Special edition exclusively for Club members _ . Telephone, please (_).

Prices shown are for publishers’ hardcover editions.
Club hardcover editions save you up to 40%.
Prices shown were current at press time.

Members accepted in U.SA only. Sales tax added where applicable. We reserve the right to reject any application.

F944

SOF 8/99

AUGUST 1999 X SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

V M § PRebHltj By,

Peter C. Kohalis

The Sniper’s Companion

Bushnell’s Laser Rangefinders for FirstrRonnd Mis

I nsects have been crawling over your hands and face for the last
eight hours. Your eyes are stinging from rivulets of sweat run¬
ning down from your forehead. Every muscle in your body is
cramped and the pungent odor of your own urine gags you. The tar¬
get finally appears and professional discipline instantly takes com¬
mand. You dial the BDC (bullet drop compensator) elevation knob
on your scope to 400 yards, align the crosshairs on the center of his
brain cavity and carefully pull rearward on the trigger.

Your target jerks abruptly and
then almost simultaneously dis¬
appears behind cover and con¬
cealment. You have just blown
the mission. Your 175-grain
Black Hills moly-coated BTHP
bullet sailed 10 inches over his
head. He was actually only 300
yards away. With a 300-yard zero,
the bullet will strike almost 14
inches low at 400 yards and thus
because of incorrect range esti¬
mation, your reticle crosshairs
were actually more than a foot
below the actual point of impact
at 300 yards. Out at ranges of 400
to 500 yards, every 10-yard error
in range estimation changes the
point of impact by 2.4 inches.

Given match-grade ammuni¬
tion, a sturdy, high-quality optical sight, a reliable and accurate rifle
and a properly trained marksman, no factor in the sniper equation
results in more misses than errors in range estimation.

Methods for estimating ranges by law enforcement and military
countersniper teams vary from the use of maps, the “100-meter
increment,” “appearance of objects,” “bracketing” and “range card”
methods up through scopes with mil-dot reticle patterns (used in
conjunction with either pocket calculators or the excellent Mildot
Master analog slide rule), or, more rarely now, bulky and heavy mil¬
itary optical rangefinders and finally, sophisticated laser rangefind¬
ers that cost more than any organization, except possibly Delta or
SEAL Team Six, could afford.

There is an excellent alternative, however, that is well within the
budget constraints of any agency or individual. No one makes high¬
er quality optical devices at lower prices than Bushnell (Dept. SOF,
9200 Cody, Overland Park, KS 66214-3259; phone: 913-752-3400;
fax: 913-752-3550; web site: http://www.bushnell.com). Soldier Of
Fortune was recently sent several models of Bushnell’s Yardage Pro
infrared laser rangefinder series for test and evaluation: the Yardage
Pro Compact 600 and 800 and the new 1000 units.

A laser is a device for producing electromagnetic radiation,
equivalent to light, but of considerably higher radiant energy. The
word “laser” is an acronym for “light amplification by simulated
emission of radiation.” Infrared laser indicates that the wavelength

of the generated light falls just below visible light in frequency on
the electromagnetic spectrum.

Several important factors influence the measuring range of any
laser rangefinder: the color, surface finish, size and shape of the tar¬
get will all affect its reflectivity, or albedo (the portion of incident
electro-magnetic radiation reflected by a surface), and the range at
which the unit can still accurately determine a range. The brighter
the target’s color, the farther away its range can be determined. Red

is highly reflective, black is
not. A shiny finish provides
more albedo than a matte sur¬
face. Small targets are more
difficult to range than larger
ones. The angle to the reflected
surface of the target is quite
important. A head-on angle
(when the target surface is per¬
pendicular, or normal, to the
flight path of the emitted ener¬
gy pulses) is best. Atmospheric
conditions, such as haze, can
reduce the measuring distance.
And, finally, lighting condi¬
tions affect the ranging poten¬
tial of a laser rangefinder. Hazy
or overcast skies provide a
maximum ranging environ¬
ment. Very sunny days dimin¬
ish a laser rangefinder’s potential. As an aside, if you anticipate ever
being on the receiving end, it would pay you to make note of these
important target indicators.

Bushnell’s Yardage Pro series of laser rangefinders use sophisti¬
cated circuitry that permits the operator to choose between two units
of measurement and various targeting modes. In addition, each
unit’s LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) incorporates illuminated indi¬
cators that inform the user 1) when the laser is active, 2) what the
reflectivity of the target is, 3) what the precision tolerances of a spe¬
cific reading are and, 4) if the battery is low.

To use a Bushnell Yardage Pro rangefinder, just look through the
monocular and press the button on the top right hand side of the unit
once to activate the LCD. Aim the Yardage Pro at a target at least 21
yards away (this minimum distance changes somewhat with the
unit) and depress and hold the button down until a range reading is
displayed. Release the button. Once activated the last reading will
remain on display for 30 seconds. The button can be depressed at
any time to range a new target.

Any Yardage Pro rangefinder can be used to determine ranges in
either yards or meters. The unit of measurement appears in the
lower right portion of the LCD. To change the unit of measurement,
depress the mode button, located to the front and right, and hold it
down for approximately 5 seconds.

This button also allows you to utilize five different targeting

Bushnell Yardage Pro laser rangefinders.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

modes in order to adjust the performance
parameters of the rangefinder to suit a spe¬
cific environment. These modes are as fol¬
lows: The “STANDARD” mode, which has
no LCD indicator, is used for targets of
average reflectivity at ranges up to 600, 800
or 1,000 yards, depending upon the unit.
When the LCD indicator exhibits “SCAN,”
the range can be continuously updated for
10 seconds when the fire button remains
depressed. This mode is used to determine
the range of moving objects. Note that
objects farther away require a slower scan¬
ning rate than closer objects. The
“REFLECTIVE” mode (shown as “REFL”
on the LCD indicator) is used when target¬
ing highly reflective objects. This will
increase the effective range of the Yardage
Pro Compact 600 and 800 to 999 yards or
meters and 1,500 yards/meters for the new
Yardage Pro 1000. However, in this mode
the unit’s sensitivity to targets of low reflec¬
tivity is decreased. The “RAIN” permits
measurements that ignore feedback from
energy pulses reflecting off precipitation
particles. “ZIP THRU” (“ZIP” on the LCD)
is used to ignore energy pulses reflecting off
objects less than 115 to 165 yards/meters
away (i.e. when distancing through brush to
a target).

The LCD can display several other
important illuminating indicators. Under¬
neath ‘TARGET QUALITY” in the upper
middle portion of the LCD are 10 squares.
The higher the number of the returning
energy pulses, the greater the number of
squares that will be illuminated, and thus
the greater the reflectivity of the target.
When the word “PRECISION” is illuminat¬
ed, it indicates that the distance measure¬
ment is accurate to within plus or minus 1
yard or meter. If not illuminated, then the
accuracy is to within plus or minus 3
yards/meters. When “LASER” is displayed
it merely indicates that energy pulses are
being emitted from the rangefinder. A low
battery charge is indicated when “BATT” is
illuminated.

The magnification of the perma-focus
monocular optical system varies from 4X
for the Yardage Pro Compact 600 to 6X for
the Yardage Pro 800 and the new Yardage
Pro 1000. The power source is one 9-volt
alkaline battery. The Yardage Pro 800 and
the Yardage Pro 1000 units have roll-down
rubber eye cups for those wearing eye glass¬
es. The Yardage Pro 1000 is also equipped
with a useful threaded tripod socket.

All of the Bushnell Yardage Pro laser
rangefinders compare favorably with units
costing literally 10 times as much. You can
expect to pay between $299 to $349 for a
Compact 600, $349 to $399 for a Yardage
Pro 800, and $369 to $399 for a Yardage
Pro 1000. These are outstanding bargains
for laser rangefinders with this many fea¬
tures and of such high quality. In my opin¬
ion, one belongs in the kit of every law
enforcement Selected Marksman. My per
sonal favorite is the new Yardage Pro 1000.
It remains permanently tucked into my
Hathcock Sniper Pack-Mat. ^

Made from D2
barstock tool steel

» D2 blades for
maximum toughness
and edge holding

• Machined
aluminum handles

One hand opening
side locks

• HRC 59-60

• Removable pocket clips

• Four blade options

• Made in the USA

KA-BAR

1-800-282-0130

www.ka-bar.com

KA-BAR was there

STEINER MILITARY/ MARINE

Battle Tested & Ready For Action.

They've stood up to some of the toughest conditions in
the world. That's what makes these rugged, lightweight
Steiner binoculars the free world s leading military
binoculars. So whatever action you have in
mind-whatever environment you challenge- i
Steiner stands ready with optics that deliver
sharp, crisp images with German precision

The Steiner 8x30 Military/Marine Once focused, ifs
sharp from 20 yards out for fast recognition of your
target Also available in 6x30. 7x 35,7x 50,

9x40aud 10 x 50 models.

Pioneer Research

97 Foster Fid., Moorestown, NJ 08057-1118
(609)866-9191, (800)257-7742, Fax:(609)866-8615

Steiner Optik Canada, Inc.

52 Chatham St, West, Suite 300,

Windsor, Ontario N9A 5M6 Canada (519)258-7263

STEINER

G E R M A

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Arnett Sacked

In the aftermath of the Operation Tailwind debacle, Peter Arnett
has left CNN under a cloud, and signed on with an obscure website.
News stories cited a “well placed source’* as saying “he’s got to take
what’s available to him.” Arnett’s separation from CNN was attrib¬
uted to the controversy swirling around a report anchored by Arnett
that falsely claimed the U.S. military used Sarin nerve agent against
AWOL servicemen in Vietnam. A number of lawsuits are now pend¬
ing from various service members slandered by this scurrilous
report. At the time of the quickly discredited “news” report, pro¬
ducers April Oliver and Jack Smith were fired and senior executive
producer Pamela Hill resigned.

After Tailwind, Arnett, whose contract was due to expire in
2001, was rarely seen on CNN. After Arnett went public with
charges that network news was not planning to pick up a July option
on his contract, CNN and Arnett “reached an exit agreement”
wherein CNN bought out his contract.

Noted the New York Post in an editorial, “Good riddance, we say.”

In related news, it has been announced that CNN is being sued
by former producer April Oliver, who is claiming CNN wrongfully
dismissed her last year, and that the network based its decision to so
do “primarily on business and public relations concerns.”

[We're not making up this next quote:] u There are issues of

honor at play here , and there are issues of fact seeking and truth
finding ’’ said Oliver.

Pentagon Seeks Authority For Civil Defense

According to a report in the New York Times , the Pentagon has
asked the White House for authority to appoint a military leader
for the continental United States, in response to what it sees as a
growing threat of major terrorist attacks on American soil. The
Defense Department plan envisions a military leader to be ready
to order thousands of doctors, equipment and emergency person¬
nel to be rapidly sent to areas of need. Although the Pentagon cur¬
rently does not have an existing organization for such crisis mis¬
sions, work has been ongoing for more than a year toward putting
one together.

Both civil libertarians and some administration officials have
expressed fear that such military power could be subject to mission
creep that would threaten the privacy, liberty and lives of private cit¬
izens. In an interview. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre
denied this, saying, “Our only appropriate role is in support of civil
agencies that have the primary responsibility for law and order and
emergency response,” saying that a major terrorist strike had the
potential to be “the most threatening event to civil liberties since
Pearl Harbor.”

FIVE STAR FITNESS - AUTHENTIC MILITARY PT

Ace the NAVY SEAL PET!

Achieve a 100% success rate with the revolutionary
12 Weeks to BUD/S Workout. Guaranteed!

Whether you want to be a
NAVY SEAL or just be as
tough as one...you need
this book and video.
Covers strength,
endurance, swimming,
running, upper and lower
body PT, abs, motivation,
workout schedules... the
works. You'll be one
strong, hard, and ripped
frogman in no time. This
is the exact program that
has helped many men
attain optimal fitness
and make it to BUD/S.

It really works!

Call Now!

ALSO AVAILABLE

BATES

The Official
Training Boot
of the
US Navy
SEALS

If you want to train like a SEAL...
you need this boot! It’s the exact
one used by Navy SEALS in BUD/S
training! Lightweight, sturdy,
comfortable. Great for work,
weekends, paintball, too! Whole
and half sizes, 7-12,13,14,15.
Med & Wide. Send Just $99 plus
$8.95 shipping. Order 2 pairs for
just $89 each.

IBltUEil NOW:

CAL11-800-906-1234

www.getfitnow.com

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

JFPO Moves

Jews For The Preservation of Firearms
Ownership, pound-for-pound no doubt the
most effective gun rights organization to
come down the pike, has a new address:
P.O. Box 270143, Hartford, WI 53027;
phone: 414-673-9745; fax: 414-673-9746;
or on the web: www.jpfo.org . If you have
not yet made contact with them, it is in your
Second Amendment interests to so do.

“Cruising” On Empty

The Pentagon has been forced to take steps
to replenish its waning stocks of air-launched
cruise missiles. Air power analysts have been
warning Pentagon planners for the last decade
that presidents would want conventionally
armed cruise missiles in order to project air
power without risking a pilot, and that they
should maintain an adequate supply. Observed
Rand Corporation analyst David Ochmanek,
“The good news is, as analysts, we’ve been
vindicated on our positions: The bad news is,
we didn’t convince anybody.” With more than
400 air-launched missiles fired over Iraq last
December, the Air Force alone fired some 90
cruise missiles, using up nearly 40% of its
inventory in one strike. The lavish use of
American cruise missiles on the NATO air
strikes on Serbia has further existing stocks,
and with all production lines shut down, steps
have been taken to convert 92 cruise missiles
from nuclear to conventional munitions.

“We still have a number of these left,
and we think we have enough to hit a num¬
ber of high-value targets, said Pentagon
spokesman Ken Bacon, “but if we have to
do the same thing next year somewhere
else, we could be out.”

Lt. Col. Frank J. Egan, USA

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of
Col. Egan please contact Col. Robert
K.Brown (phone: 303-449-3750, Ext. 313;
fax: 303-444-5617). Egan served as a mem¬
ber of Army Special Forces and the Cuban
Task Force associated with the Bay of Pigs.

Chambers the
50BMG cartridge!

• All steel construction

• 30.4 pounds • 45.5 inch LOA

• Thumb safety and bolt stop safety

• Very low recoil, like a 12 gauge shotgun

• Single shot breech loading bolt action bull pup

• Match grade chamber (requires match grade ammo)

• 36 inch 1:16 twist heavy barrel with compensator

• 4340 alloy steel bolt (Mil Spec 5000), heat treated to 46 R/C

• 4140 alloy steel receiver, heat treated to 42 R/C

• Comes complete with bipod, scope mount, leather cheek pad
and hard carry case. Scope sold separately.

Unsurpassed Accuracy and Impact!

TRIPOD AND
PINTEL MOUNT

Lightweight tripod with positive locking eleva¬
tion and windage adjustment . Perfect for lock¬
ing the Grizzly 50 Big Boar on target! A vari¬
ety of large game species have been taken
using a tripod equipped Grizzly 50 Big Boar!

MANUFACTURING

4133 West Farm RD, West Jordan, UT 84088-4997
Tel: 801-280-3505 • Fax: 801-280-1972
www.lorgrizzly.com • Email: guns@largrizzly.com

BEAM AH MS WITH CHIZZ.IA'"

Targeting the .50 Next?

Two of the usual suspects, Dem. Reps.
Henry Waxman, of California, and Rod
Blagojevich, of Illinois, appear to launching
a campaign against .50 BMG rifles. And in
a blinding flash of incompetence, investiga¬
tors from the usually competent General
Accounting Office testified at a hearing
organ!zad by Waxman and Blagojevich that
such rifles gained popularity during the
Gulf War (the original rifles and rounds
were developed in WWI) because they “can
penetrate a tank’s armor from a mile away”
(the type of round and concept was discard¬
ed as an anti-armor weapon more than 50
years ago because it would not penetrate

SWITCHBLADE - AUTOMATIC KNIFE COLLECTORS!

“The Automatic Knife Resource Guide and Newsletter '

Sources for ALL automatic knives!

•Rare and scarce antiques.

•American-ltalian-German
•High-Tech production models.
•Exotic handcrafted customs.
Check out our WEB SITE:
^theuewslettcr.com”

A MUST for ALL switchblade fans!

♦Packed with FIRST-CLASS

♦ Maintenance & repair tips
♦Free classified ads
♦The LATEST trends

♦ Informative articles and features’

A low in our SEVENTH YEAR!

TO ORDER YOURS, send $10. for a single issue or $30.

[$38. Foreign] for a one-year (4 issue) subscription to:

THE NEWSLETTER

2269 Chestnut St, Suite 212-A
For 24hr. information call: 415-664-210S_San Francisco, CA 94123. USA

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Web Watch

This month’s offering, INFO WAR on the web, explores the
effects of the information revolution on the Art of War. Sun Tzu

Continued on page 29

If you cannot afford a trip to Washington, D.C., to view the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial - “The Wall” — take heart: A mobile replica might be
coming to a location near you. Vietnam Combat Veterans, Ltd., has three
half-size replicas, each of which assembles to 252 feet long, bearing 58,213
names of our war dead and POW/MIAs. For a modest fee, the organization
will bring a mobile monument to sponsoring communities. Contemporary
with its week-long stay in Floresville, Texas, the Wilson County News , the
fifth largest community weekly paper in Texas, published a very worth¬
while special edition, Vietnam Remembered , edited by Marty Kufus, also
a contributing editor for SOF.

For your community to apply for a slot in the busy schedule of the
Moving Wall, contact VCC, 1267 Alma Ct., San Jose, CA 95112; phone:
408-288-6305; website: http://www.iinc.com/MovingWall. Copies of
Vietnam Remembered are available by mail for only $3.50 postpaid,
from: Vietnam Remembered \ Box 115, Floresville, TX 78114. Inquire for
bulk prices.

even the tanks of that era at point-blank range). GAO agent Roberts
Hast said the weapons were highly accurate up to 2,000 yards, and
can be effective at distances of 7,500 yards. Just what they might be
effective against at 7,500 yards, he did not specify.

Amazingly, the bimbo-edited new Army Times parroted the con¬
gressional disinformation and slavish wire-service stories, “Military
sniper rifles like those used to stop Iraqi tanks during the Persian
Gulf War are now in the hands of thousands of civilians, including
suspected terrorists and drug deaslers,” running these incredible
quotes, with neither correction nor comment.

Of course, the big-bore rifles were characterized as “sniper”
rifles. Look for any scoped hunting rifle to be next.

Will you be in the DARK January 1, 2000?

4- High-Performing GEN II &
GEN III Systems

4 Limited 2-Year
ALL Night Vision

4 Data Record Sheets
with ALL New Systems!

4 Visit our website or call for
equipment specifications &
warranty details.

; Provided

World’s Largest
Stocking Distributor of
Night Vision Devices
over 22 Years!

he BEST Pocketscope. The
American Eagle can be hand-held,
head- or camera-mounted. The Model
603U can identify a person at 200
yards unaided on the darkest night!

Exralibur Electro Coptics, 3nc.

The BEST Riflescope. The 4X
RAPTOR has 1,500 yard
detection with a quarter moon!

PO Box 400

Fogelsville, PA 18051-0400

1 - 800 - 797-2849

FAX (610) 391-9220

www.nightvis.com

xcalibur@ptdprolog.net

If the lights go out, are you prepared to protect
your family and property? Excalibur’s battery
operated night vision systems turn night into day.
You see intruders who can’t see you.

The BEST Single Tube Goggle.
The GEN III 1700-4U can be
used to see people moving at
1,000 yards in starlight.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE * AUGUST 1999

He’s easily won over 600 brutal streetlights!

Veteran Streetfighter Agrees To Give You A

FREE $39 VIDEO

Revealing His Most Powerful (And Surprisingly Simple) Down-and-Dirty Fight-
Ending “IKcks” Just to Prove That A Well-Itemed Citizen (Armed Only With
This incredible Knowledge) Can Still Safely Walk In Public!

Forget switchblades or pepper spray. And leave your Clint Eastwood “Dirty Harry” fantasies at home in the VCR...

In real life, 9 times out of 10, you have to defend yourself with your bare hands ... with no time to think about how to
execute those complicated moves you’ve learned from the “experts” (who’ve never been in a real streetfight in their lives).

If you really want to be armed with the skills that will save vour life in an all-out hostile confrontation (or even just a
barroom scuffle), then let me introduce you to a man who has been there and done that — over 600 times! — and

knows exactly what works... and what doesn’t .

If you have the outs, he will teach you the skills that will give you the confidence of knowing you can handle anything
that comes your way. These skills are so devastating that you’ll not only end the fight practically before it starts, but...

And No One Will Ever Mess With You Again!

Interested? Please read on...

Dear Friend,

Let’s be honest with each other, shall we?

We all have our “mental fantasies” of what
we’d do if some criminal scumbag or a
pissed-off drunken yahoo tries to mess with
us, right?

We think we’d do this fancy move, or that
fancy kick, or get into position to deliver an
award-winning “combination” of strikes and
blows that would make Bruce Lee green
with envy.

But in reality? It’s a whole different story.

Just ask veteran streetfighter Jim West.
He’s been in (and won) over 600 brutal
streetfights. No, that’s not a typo or a
misprint. I said...

SIX HUNDRED STREETFIGHTS!

And he's never lost a single one!

Can you name anybody else alive today
who has that kind of experience under his
belt? I can’t — and I’ve been on the “inside”
of the martial arts world for several years now.

When I first met Jim West, I was truly
astonished — both by his amazing “track
record” — and by what he told me are the
two most important rules to remember in
any streetfight. They are...

RULE #1: There Are NO Rules.
RULE #2: Don’t Ever Forget Rule
#1, or You’re DEAD!

You see, the bad guys are called “bad guys”
for a reason: They don’t fight fair ! If you
think you’re going to have time to get one
word out of your mouth, you’re wrong . It all
happens too fast for any clever Hollywood-
style cutdowns or comebacks. There’s no

AUGUST 1999 X SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

dialogue — just violence . Fast, furious, and
sometimes fatal violence.

Are you prepared for it ? Most guys aren’t.
Even if you’ve seen a few videos on military-
style hand-to-hand combat systems, you’re
still not even close to knowing the secrets to
winning real-life streetfights.

Unlike most “experts” these days, Tim
West knows how to win streetfights . As I
said, he’s won over 600 of them. I don’t know
about you, but that’s the kind of guy I would
go to for training.

And, as a matter of fact, I have .

My name is Bob Pierce, and I recently
started a new video production company called
“ Underground Streetfighters Association .” For
the last several years, I’ve been working with
TRS (Threat Response Solutions), which
produces some very good videos on hand-to-
hand combat. As you know, TRS features some
of the military’s top trainers on their videos —
and they're damned good

But one day I discovered that there are
certain guys in the martial arts world who
are actually “ too nasty ” even for the
military to touch. These are guys like Jim
“Smokey” West, whom I want to intro¬
duce to you now. What kind of guy is he?
I’ll give you a clue...

You’d Want Jim West To Be Your
Best Friend!

First of all, Jim West is a 6th Degree Black
Belt in karate. He’s also a master and
instructor of several other fighting styles,
from Muay Thai kick-boxing to Western-
style boxing to Combat Ju-Jitsu ground-
fighting. He’s even developed his own

streetfighting system — “Modern Karate”,
he calls it — and has his own full-contact
school near Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Jim West spent 20 years of his
adventurous life in the U.S. military—most
of that in special forces — taking part in the
Invasion of Panama and the action in Kuwait
and Saudi Arabia. He was a member of the
team that occupied the U.S. Embassy in
Kuwait, and Jim received an award from
Gen. Schwarzkopf himself for his fighting
heroism in Saudi Arabia. He’s even worked
on special top-secret covert missions for the
CIA in Central and South America, training
counter-narcotics paramilitary forces,
hostage rescue forces, counter-insurgency,
intelligence operations, etc., etc.!

Now retired as a CW3 Chief Warrant
Officer, Jim is highly sought-after for private
security by corporate executives and foreign
dignitaries. In fact, he was a member of the
security detail for President Aristide when
he regained power in Haiti.

Jim’s been shot, stabbed, ambushed, had
boards and bottles broken over his head, you
name it — and that's just in civilian life!

Why So Many Fights?

Jim is a veteran of over 600 streetfights
because he used to enjoy getting into them!
Starting in his younger days, he hung around
with a group of guys who would go to bars
looking for trouble, and then “do their stuff”
when it came their way. He’d get into fights
2 or 3 times a week — sometimes 2 or 3
times a night! — and he did that for nearly
15 years!

Plus, for a long time, Jim had a

girlfriend who was the finest looking lady
youve ever laid eyes on. (It seems that guys
who can fight like Jim get girls like that!) But
no matter where they’d go, some fool
would invariably try to make a pass at Jim’s
girlfriend, and that would be the end of
that guy’s evening!

Jim just doesn’t mess around.

And with a track record like his — and
the fact that he’s never lost even one of the
600 fights he’s been in — I’d say Jim West
knows what he’s talking about when it
comes to streetfights! Wouldn’t you?
Compare that to all those silly “martial arts
school” instructors who’ve never even
walked down a dark alley in a big city, and
you can see the enormous benefit of
learning from a guy like Jim West instead
of those “bookish” types.

That’s why I brought Jim out to California
a while back to shoot a video revealing his
most powerful, down-and-dirty, fight-
winning techniques. And here’s just a sample
of what Jim teaches on this mind-blowing,
life-saving video that he and I want to send
you, free of charge ...

Yes, that’s right, it’s a FREE video —
tided “Street Combat Made Easy” — and
on it you’ll learn...

• An instant knockout point on the
human body that’s easy to hit and
works every time !

• Where to hit a person to cause so
much pain, the body just shuts down
complete ly !

• How to slam someone to the ground,
just by grabbing his ears!

• How to control a person who’s
charging you like a bull — a simple
“crank” that makes his knees buckle
and lets you do whatever you want to
with his body!

• A simple innovation that increases the
effectiveness of your punches by 50% or
more! (It doesn’t take a lot of practice,
either. You’ll learn it in one session!)

• Where to aim when you’re punching
so that you always hit the person’s #1
knockout point!

• Ground fighting? How to protect
yourself from “bystanders” who try to
kick you!

• Bones on the foot that break like a
toothpick, and how to nail them!

• The life-saving secret of doing head¬
butts that not one person in a thousand
knows . If you don’t do this right, you
will put yourself out of commission
when head-butting your opponent!

• How to save yourself from a life-
threatening choke-hold!

• A “guillotine” move that finishes
things off real fast!

• An “open-hand” defensive technique
that can instantly be turned into a
lethal offensive striking mechanism!

• The proper fingers to use for an eye-

jab so that you never miss your
opponent’s eyes!

• How to use eye-gouges with the
effectiveness of a Randall knife!

• How to grab a person’s head and then
head-butt them in a way that splits
their head open! (Obviously, only to be
used when you have to kill!)

• Easily-accessible pressure points on
a person’s face and head that will
cause them a great deal of pain with
just a light amount of pressure from
your finger!

• The 2 most lethal areas on the body,
and how to attack them!

• What we can learn from the way apes
and monkeys fight in the wild — a
simple technique you only want to use
in a life-or-death situation!

• A special way to do a groin slap that
attacks a “hidden nerve” near the
scrotum. Hit this spot and the
fight’s over !

• How to attack the diaphragm for
devastating stopping power. Even the
slightest hit here will knock the wind
out of someone!

• The proper way to go for the throat.
With one hand, you can stop the fight
before it begins !

• Knife Defense: a simple “cross-over”
technique that will stop most knife
attacks and enable you to disarm the
attacker and put him on the ground!

• Why complicated “routines” look great
when you practice them, but almost
never work in the streets — and a
simple trick that gives you the split-
second advantage you need for turning
the tables on your opponent!

• Joint locks and manipulations that
work well even if your attacker has a
knife or gun!

• Where to hit a person’s arm so that he
drops his knife — no matter how strong
his grip is!

All of this — and more ! — is revealed on
the FREE VIDEO I’m going to send you
(with your permission) as a way of
introducing you to Jim “Smokey” West and
his unique method of staying alive in today’s
increasingly violent world.

But perhaps you’re wondering...

What Makes Jim West Different
From All The Others?

It’s very simple. You see, Jim West is miles
ahead of all the other martial arts “experts”
out there because he knows what really works
in a streetfight... and what doesn't.

From his own invaluable experience of
winning over 600 streetfights, he knows
that nothing ever goes as planned. And
you’d better not be relying on those
complicated routines you’ve seen on other
videos or learned in martial arts school!
In real life, you need simple, quick.

devastating moves that will end the fight
instantly — by taking the person by sur¬
prise and causing him so much pain , he
doesn’t even have a chance to get in a
second blow (let alone a first!).

And the neat thing is, Jim West has a
whole arsenal of these fight-stopping moves
and “dirty little tricks” he wants to teach you.
The free video I want to send you — even
though it’s 46 minutes long and packed with
the vital skills I mentioned above — is
actually just a small sample of everything Jim
West can teach you!

In fact, when we brought Jim out to
California for the video shoot, we weren’t
even prepared for how much he has to teach
people! I thought we’d do a 2-hour video,
like our others. But he just kept giving us
more and more and more... and we ended
up with an action-packed video that’s almost
FOUR HOURS LONG!

Jim’s awesome videotape set is called
“Fight To Win” — and it is without a doubt
the most comprehensive revelation of down-
and-dirty streetfighting techniques ever put
on video. Bar none!

Let me give you some juicy samples of
what you’ll learn from the 4 hours and 15
minutes of non-stop incredible material Jim
has to teach you. A single one will save your
life if you’re ever in trouble — and Jim gives
you hundreds to choose from on these video
tapes!. Take a look...

• The first thing you want to do in any
fight. Do it right and you can actually
avoid getting hit!

• How to put a little extra “bite” into
each punch you throw!

• 7 crucial things to know about
throwing a punch for maximum
effectiveness — plus “rhythm” drills
that install these skills into your mind
and body like computer software!

• How to dramatically cut down on
your vulnerability when facing a
hostile opponent.

• 6 areas on a person’s leg where your
kicks will cause the most pain possible.
One will even break the guy’s leg!

• The most underestimated kick in your
arsenal. It’s also the most effective for
ending a fight immediately !

• The secret to this low-line kick makes
all the difference in the world. People
have actually died from the shock of
being hit by one of these!

• A special “heel-hook” kick that takes
people completely by surprise and causes
a lot of pain!

• Shin hits that will cause most people
to give up the fight almost instantly!

• Where to hit the nerves on the leg to
cause the person’s legs to buckle —
even with a “gentle” hit!

• A “push and shove” technique to add
to your kicks that gives 200% more
power and stopping ability.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

• A “T-block” that stops cold even the
hardest kicks to your groin, while
simultaneously “loading” your body
with explosive power that you
unleash on your opponent with
lightning-fast speed!

• How to “control” your opponents body
so that he feels the maximum force of
every punch you land!

• A way to attack the lower leg that will
break a person’s knee and probably
cripple him for life!

• The proper way to back up during a
fight. This will keep you from getting
pinned against a wall (where you’d
definitely get the shit beat out of you!)

• A “probe” kick that tricks your
opponent into dropping his guard so
you can attack his head!

• An extremely simple forearm strike
that will knock someone unconscious
when placed in the right spot!

• Key “clues” to look for in a person’s
body language that tell you if he’s about
to hit you or not.

Plus, throughout the video, Jim gives you
dozens of different drills that help you develop
your speed, reaction, awareness, and power.
You’ll acquire the ability to think under fire

— because the inability to think under fire is
like signing your death certificate!

And every so often, the video cuts to litde
“interviews” with Jim, where he gives you his
best advice on what it takes to be a real fighter
and come out on top in any brutal streetlight.

He’s One of the Best Teachers I’ve
Ever Seen!

Plus, I think you’re going to love the way
Jim teaches you on this video. You see, instead
of just showing you by himselfhow each move
is done, Jim also has 3 students on the video

— a large man, a medium-size guy, and a 100-
lb female — and he actually teaches them
right there on the spot how to do each move!
This way, you can watch people who aren't
experts — people just like you — learning it
for the first time. And you can actually learn
from their mistakes! When they do
something wrong, Jim corrects them and
shows them (and you) how to avoid making
all the common mistakes people make when
learning these moves.

This alone will really speed-up your
learning process while you watch these
videos at home. It’s almost like having Jim
in your living room with you, watching your
every move and correcting you when you
make a mistake!

And Jim’s teaching style is very easy to
relate to. He’s very natural, personable, and
comfortable to learn from. Throughout the
video, he talks to you , not to a vague
“audience”. Personally, I think you’ll enjoy
watching these tapes more than any others
in your library. I did! Plus there’s something
else you get from these tapes besides the
“mechanics” of the moves themselves...

The Chance to Leant From a
Master Streetfighter!

Just being in Jim’s “presence” — even
though it’s by video —will install in you a
streetfrghter’s savvy, wisdom, and street-
smarts. Jim’s hard-won knowledge and skills
will now become yours . You’ll acquire his
keen sense of awareness and ability to sniff
out danger. You’ll adopt his tough-as-nails
attitude toward self-defense. And it’ll seem
like you’ve been in those 600 streetfights (or
close to it!).

And yet, while becoming a warrior, you
won’t become a thug. As you’ll see, Jim is
quite the gentleman. He’s civilized, but he
knows how to handle trouble when it comes
his way. Now so will you.

And as you know, there’s a special,
indescribable feeling of security and self-
confidence that comes over you when you
learn how to handle trouble. It “radiates” from
your every pore. People in your presence —
especially women — sense the inner strength
that you project (no matter how “average¬
looking” you may be on the outside). It’s in
your eyes, in your talk, in your walk, and in
every muscle in your body. It’s more than just
an “attitude” that you put on like a coat. And
it’s certainly not fake or artificial. People can
tell if you’re faking, because of certain little
“clues” that give you away.

But when you have the real thing, you
know it. Everyone knows it. Even the
criminals or barroom jerks who might
consider messing with you can sense it, and
they stay away. The ones who don’t? Well,
they learn the hard way.

No amount of money can buy this
“Position Of Strength”, as Jim calls it. It must
either be earned... or learned . It’s earned from
hundreds of brutal streetfights, like Jim’s. Or
else learned direcdy from someone who’s been
in those hundreds of streetfights, like Jim.

The Next Best Thing to Sitting At
His Feet!

In fact, that’s the main beauty of learning
from Jim West. He’s earned his fighting
strength and self-defense skills from those
600 fights. And watching this video is not
only the next best thing to being one of his
private students, but it’s like sitting at his feet ,
absorbing every morsel of wisdom that
comes out of his mouth. You can watch it
over and over and you’ll never get bored. And
after practicing what he teaches you, in no
time you will have “catapulted” your fighting
abilities to levels that most guys don’t reach
even after 10 or 15 years of training! That’s
how powerful Jim West’s teaching really is.

But you won’t fully realize this until you
watch this amazing new video. You get 4
hours worth, packed with incredibly
brilliant, devastatingly effective, and
surprisingly simple techniques that even a
100-pound female can execute against a 250-
pound boxer — which is exactly what you ll
see on these tapes!

And Jim, as I said, is an excellent teacher.
He’s clear, precise, patient, and thorough. He
wants you to know his life-saving skills —
and do them right! — so that he can have the
satisfaction of knowing that he helped good
people like you survive the vicious attacks
that have become so commonplace in today’s
“Warlord Society”. Jim strives to make his
students “the best of the best”. He holds
nothing back — giving you his aU so that
one day you can say...

“Jim West’s Training Saved
My Life!”

That's why he wants you to have the free
video I mentioned earlier.. This way, even if
you decide not to keep the other 2 tapes in
the set, at least he’ll have touched your life
in a lasting way that could end up saving
your life some day.

Think about it...

• You’ll learn dozens of chokes, locks,
holds, kicks, strikes, take-downs,
breaks... you name it.

• Simple ways to tie your enemy up like
a pretzel and cause him so much pain,
he’ll immediately give up the fight!

• Powerful ways to increase the pain
on your assailant if the idiot doesn’t
give up!

• What to do if your enemy out-wrestles
you. One simple trick can turn the
tables in the blink of an eye!

• An amazing way to choke someone out
and slam him head-first into the
ground, just by grabbing his collar!

• The first thing you want to do when you
end up on the ground, and the second
move that will end the fight instantly!

• How to manipulate a person’s entire
body—turning him any which way you
please — just by grabbing his chin!

• Escape techniques that let you break
away from any bad situation!

• How to get out of a bear hug, from
the front or from behind!

• How to trip someone when they try
to punch you. One of these sneaky
moves will even break the guy's foot on
his way down to the ground!

• A foot stomp that will end most fights
all by itself.

• Where to kick the knees for the
easiest break!

• 3 excellent ways to break away from
someone who grabs your shirt from the
front. You’ll flip them onto the ground
without breaking a sweat!

• How to hit someone with a beer bottle
for maximum effect. Plus, Jim tells you
about a particular type of soda bottle
that’s the meanest weapon of them all!

• Amazing things you can do to
someone with your umbrella!

• A “standing arm bar” that will
introduce your attacker to a whole new
world of pain!

AUGUST 1999 * SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

• How to cut a much taller person
down to a manageable size with a
simple “bump”.

• And on and on. Heck, if I gave you one
of these “juicy tidbits” for every single
thing you’ll learn on Jim West’s new
video, this letter would be 20 pages
long! I’m not kidding!

That’s because you get three and a half
hours of intensive video instruction from
probably the most experienced streetfighter
alive today. Plus a 46-minute video for free
that you get to keep even if you don't want
the other 2 tapes!

So there you have it — an honest deal
from an honest man. A guy who knows how
to win fights... how to avoid getting hurt...
and how to make the other guy suffer for
picking a fight with you!

Your Strength Becomes a Habit!

You’ll use these skills every day of your
life, sometimes without even realizing it. The
“Position Of Strength” that you will operate
from will become so strongly ingrained in
your psyche and in your physique that it will
soon become second-nature... an unconscious
habit. You’ll only need “flip the switch” to
turn it on full blast when some stupid
scumbag or “warlord” type makes the
mistake of crossing your fine!

Within a few seconds, he’ll realize just
how “bad” you are... that you’re fight-years
ahead of him in down-and-dirty painful
fighting skills... and that he should have
picked on somebody else that day!

Hopefully you’ll never have to teach
anyone this lesson. But as you know, the
world is getting more and more dangerous
every day. With all the gangs everywhere —
in big cities and small towns — our society is
headed toward a “warlord” mentality, as Jim
calls it...

Where Nobody’s Safe Anymore!

You don’t even have to piss anybody off
to get attacked. You may just happen to have
something they want. Or they may just be

□ I prefer to pay by credit card.

Please charge my:

□ Visa G MasterCard G American Express G Discover

Card #:___

Expires:_

going through a gang initiation. You may very
simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time
— in your front yard, at a grocery store,
walking through a parking lot, even in broad
daylight! There’s no “time-frame” for the
perfect target anymore. Nor is it restricted
to the bad side of town or a sleazy barroom
or a dark alley.

This is all-out WAR! That’s why Jim
keeps telling you on the video not to think
of martial arts as a “sport”. Those
complicated routines that you learn at the
local school don’t work ! In the real world,
all you have time for are quick, devastating
moves that cause instant , excruciating pain
(and possibly death) for the son of a bitch
who decided to mess with you!

So after you watch Jim’s video, whenever
the next gang member on an “initiation rite”
chooses at random to attack you or a loved
one with you, that pathetic little shit will end
up in the hospital — or worse!

The local police will actually appreciate
you for “taking out” the scumbags they
would love to beat senseless!

The local ambulance companies will
appreciate the extra business you send their
way. So will the orthopedic surgeons... the
neurosurgeons... even the morticians!

Don’t Think It Can’t Be Done!

Jim West’s fife history is a non-stop string
of putting people in the hospital for messing
with him! One drugged-out punk was on
life-support for 3 weeks after Jim was
finished with him!

Jim knows exactly how to win the
deadliest of fights, and he teaches you how
on these exciting videos.

If you have the guts, and you’re willing
to do what it really takes to survive a
deadly streetfight or even a barroom
scuffle, you’ll order Jim West’s new videos
today, without hesitation. You won’t
complain about the nominal cost, either
($97 for 4 hours of tape!) because you
simply can’t get this kind of training
anywhere else at any price. And I seriously

Q Enclosed is my check/money order (payable to USA),
for $101.50 ($97 + $4.50 Shipping & Handling)

Please rush my package to:

Name:_

Address:_

doubt that you’ll send the tapes back for a
refund — although you have that option
because of our 3-month 100% Money-
Back Guarantee of Complete Satisfaction.

So go ahead and order Jim West’s “Fight
To Win” video tape set today. As I said, it’s
a mere $97 (plus $4.50 for shipping and
handling; total $101.50). You can either fill
out the order form below and mail it with
your payment, or for fastest service call
TOLL-FREE...

1 - 800 - 294-9602

(Ask for Department JW-20)
Call 24 hours a day,

7 days a week!

Either way, your set of Jim West’s
fascinating video tapes — plus the power-
packed FREE BONUS video — will be sent
out to you right away by first class mail. Pop
those tapes into the VCR as soon as you get
them (take the Dirty Harry tape out first),
and prepare to be absorbed into the no-
holds-barred world of raw, unstoppable
streetfighting technology.

Then, the next time trouble comes
your way...

BOOM! BAM! BANG!

That Fight’s Over!

And you’re the winner!

But if you don't watch these videos, you
have to ask yourself one question: Do you
feel lucky? Will you be the one left standing?
Or will you be lying on the ground,
writhing in pain, bleeding internally, with
nobody around for miles who would dare
help you?

It’s your choice. You can either wake up the
next day to a beautiful sunrise... or be staring
at a surgery lamp in an operating room.

It’s your choice.

Sincerely,

Robert Pierce
President,

Underground Streetfighters Association

P.S. If you think I’m being too dramatic
about our “Warlord Society” and the need
to armed with Jim West’s fighting skills,
let me just remind you of what happened
in Los Angeles recently when a young
family made a wrong turn and ended up on
a dead-end street in a gang-banger
neighborhood. Those mindless animals
opened fire on that innocent family , trapped
in their car ,; and killed a 3-year-oldgirl inside!

That's what our world has come to! And if
you’re not prepared to defend yourself from
such ruthless violence that strikes innocent
people like you when you least expect it, all
I can say is GOOD LUCK! It's been nice
J knowing you!

Signature.

City: _

Underground Streetfighters Association • 606 E. Acequia, Dept. JW-20

CA & VA residents add appropriate sales tax. Rush shipping available for additional charges of $10 for “2-Day” shippin
Foreign orders may require additional shipping. Call for more information.

_ST:_Zip:_

Visalia, CA 93292

nd $15 for “Overnight'shipping.

For The Fastest Service, Use Your Credit Card And Call Toll-FREE
1 - 800 - 294-9602 (Ask For Department JW-20)
Priority Order Form for Soldier of fortune Readers!

O'YES! Not only do I have the guts to learn Jim West's awesome streetfighting techniques, I have the desire , too! I'm not
about to let some criminal scumbag beat the tar out of me. I want to know the secrets of winning down-and-dirty streetfights,
and who better to learn from than one of the most experienced streetfighters on the planet! Please rush my order of Jim West's
"Fight To Win" — 4 hours and 15 minutes worth of non-stop, incredible fighting secrets! Plus, be sure to include the FREE BONUS
TAPE on 'Street Fighting Made Easy'! I understand that the price is just $97 plus $4.50 shipping and handling (total $101.50) and
that the tapes come with a 3-month 100% Money-Back No-Risk Guarantee. On that basis, here is my address and how I wish to

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE * AUGUST 1999

Continued from page 24

declared “All warfare is based on decep¬
tion,” and deception and surprise are
achieved by masterful control of informa¬
tion. No wonder that forward-looking war¬
riors relate the work of the ancient Chinese
general to modem information warfare.
Gray Literature by Soule and Ryan:
http://www.dtic.mil/summit/tb07.html

• briefing for analysts, policy makers, and
warfighters on gray literature and gray infor¬
mation, the untapped region of open source
intelligence outside normal bookselling and
periodical channels (i.e.. World Wide Web
and SOF contributors and readers).

Sun Tzu Art of War in Information
Wat fare, Notes Abstract:

http://www.ndu.edu/inss/siws/ch4n.html
• National Defense University bibliography.
Information Warfare: Bibliography:
http://www.informatik.umu. se/~rwhit/T
WBib.html • many Infowar links here.

USAF Fact Sheet 95-20 Information
Warfare: http://www.af.mi 1/news/factsheets/
Information_Warfare.html

Copernicus ... Forward, C4I For The
21st Century: http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/
c4i/coperfwd.txt

SPAWARSYSCEN Information Warfare-
Protect Systems Engineering Division:
http://infosec.nosc.mil/code72.html
Glossary of Information Warfare Terms:
http://www.psycom.net/iwar.2.html • by
Institute for the Advanced Study of
Information Warfare: http://www.psycom.
net/iwar. 1 .html

National Defense University, Warfare in
the Information Age;http://www.ndu.edu/
inss/books/anthology 1/chl 9.html

A Guide to Information Warfare: http:
//www.uta.fi/~ptmakul/infowar/index.html
An Introduction to Information Wat fare:
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/student/relo/in
fowar/info-war.html • online paper by
George Washington University student.

Strategic Information Warfare: A New
Face of War: http://www.rand.org/
pubIications/MR/MR661/MR661.html
•Rand Corp.

Strategic Assessment: The Internet:
http://www.copi.eom/articles/IntelRpt/s
wett.html

• 1995 report from DoD policy wonk
playing to Clinton Adminstration interests.

Winn Schwartau's InfoWar.com:
http://www.infowar.com/ • Schwartau
authors Infowar books.

“Infowar” part of NATO arsenal?:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/
news/0,4586,2231976,00.html

• yes, but targeting Serbian radar and
comm, not personal computers.

Open Source Solutions:
http://www.oss.net/ • specialists in
OSCINT (Open Source Intelligence).

Suspicious that Beltway Pollsters are
waging a disinformation war? Check out a
pollster who talks to real people:
http://www.zogby.com/home.htm .

KA-BAR TougL.KA-BAR Value

)K2Kf!*'

Folders

The Strength, Toughness
and Value you expect
from KA-BAR

• ATS 34 Stainless
Steel blades

• Ribbed Zytel handles
for comfort and grip

• HRC 58-59

• One hand opening
side locks

• Pocket clip

• Four blade options

• Made in the USA

KA-BAR

1-800-282-0130

www.ka-bar.com

. 1

4 9 s i n s

fii h m

(

\ |

r 'J

fir
errr

Front Printed
On Quality 50/50
Black T-Shirt
SPECIFY DESIGN AND SHIRT SIZE *

Sizes: M • L • XL
XXL (addl $2.00)

*15

Each PLUS S3 S&H for
first shirt: add SI S&H for
each additional shirt.

Send

GJieck/MO/MC/Visa To:
□mega Group Ltd.
5735 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. As
Boulder, CO 80303
www. scrim ag. com

— compiled by Richard Rongstad 5?

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

UNITED STATES

Heavy Humvee combat: U.S. Army tank battalion (1-33) adopts plan to improve
reconnaissance assets and enable Humvee-mounted scout platoon to survive in
heavy armored combat. The scout platoon, with its 10 Humvees, is reinforced to
become entire company by adding engineer section, tank platoon, two infantry
squads, mortar section and some support assets, such as maintenance, medical,
etc. • Don’t jump yet! Army discovers instructions for packing new reserve para¬
chutes could be read two ways, one of which will result in a chute not opening. New
instructions are being written. • Shorter enlistments? Senator Warner proposes
the military offer 18-month enlistments to gain more recruits among modern youth
who consider four years too long a commitment. Military shows little interest,
insisting they need 18 months just to create effective soldier. Some military officials
also fear shorter enlistment option would cost Army many current 4-year enlistees.

■

! V! f ■

“|W V ~7

.‘-O ■ r

. 4^* 4.

■v 1 " v*
/ *

n c

RUSSIA

Russian Humvee: Russia's Gorky Manufacturing Plant
(GAZ) began producing four-wheel GAZ-3937 armored
truck (based loosely on BRDM-2) for use by border
guards in 1986. By 1996, numerous variants appeared
and vehicle began entering service with regular army
units due to its low cost and easy maintenance, although
orders for significant numbers of these vehicles have not
been forthcoming. All of these vehicles, known in Russia
as the Vodnik, are recognized by the large (bulletproof)
glass windows in the front. • New Treaty: Russia and
NATO close to deal to rewrite Conventional Forces in
Europe treaty. This would allow Russians to keep 760
vehicles they have over the limits in the Caucasus in
exchange for allowing NATO to station two divisions in
each of the three new member countries. • Free speech:
Tadjikhistan sentences seven followers of renegade Col.
Makhmud Khudoberdiyev to 14 years for 1997 coup.

CANADA

Army overhaul: Canada plans to reorganize army
units, reduce size and number of different vehicles
in service. Today, each of the three brigades have
two mechanized battalions (mixed Ml 13 and Grizzly
6x6 APCs), a light infantry battalion, tank battalion,
artillery battalion and various support units.

-rp-

GERMANY

New submarine: Government dis¬
plays design of new Type-214 sub¬
marine, which is basically a Type-
209 ocean-going boat with
advanced systems of shorter-ranged
Type-212. Type-214 is diesel-elec¬
tric sub with auxiliary air-indepen¬
dent propulsion system. Vessel
designed for 50-day missions with
30-member crew, and can sprint at
16-20 knots during typical mission.

J 7*f K

CAMBODIA

Khmer Rouge: United Nations continues trying to negotiate inter¬
national involvement in Cambodian court trial of Khmer Rouge
leaders. Hun Sen rejects any kind of UN supervision or “stan¬
dards” and says he might allow UN “legal experts” to assist in
some administrative tasks. General Ta Mok admits he financed
Khmer Rouge army fry running lucrative businesses in Thailand.

SOMALIA

Anarchy and fighting: Country
remains in anarchy, with new
fighting in Baidoa between RRA
and Aidid, and several clashes in
Mogadishu. Aid workers remain
target of kidnapping and murder.

HONDURAS

Murdering the Left: CIA document con¬
firms Honduran presidents from 1980-
84 knew their military was abducting
and murdering leftist leaders.

INDIA

Strategic ice: Government may
hold onto Siachen Glacier for
more than pride or stubbornness.
Glacier is closest Indian-held ter¬
ritory to Chinese nuclear test
ranges, and battle positions there
overlook Karakorum highway
that would be primary supply
route from China into Pakistan in
the event of a future war, reports
Jane’s Intelligence Review.

« ■/•

MEXICO

American protests: Two Americans ordered
out of country for taking part in demonstra¬
tions in Chiapas, even as another judge ruled
that expulsion of 12 pro-rebel foreigners was
illegal. • Police arrest 21 soldiers who
protested corruption in armed forces. •
Mexican senators demand former President
Salinas be investigated in 1994 murder of
presidential candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

CHINA

Missiles to Iran: China’s C802 anti-ship cruise missile uses French-built TRI-60
engine built by Microturbo SA, which sold the complete engines to China. China
sold more than 100 of the missiles, with their French engines, to Iran, and France
later sold Iran several dozen TRI-60 engines which it used to build its own C802s
under license from China, according to U.S. intelligence sources. • Spies in US.:
Clinton assigns Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board to investigate security and
Chinese spying at U.S. nuclear laboratories; appoints former Congresswoman
Jane Harman to board. Harman is former paid lobbyist for Chinese government.
• Self-restraint: China pledges self-restraint in dispute over Spratlys, but rejects
Philippine demands it not build more structures on Mischief Reef or other islands.

J UN
coi

CUBA

Just a game: United States dismisses political impli¬
cations of 28 March baseball game between Cuban
All-Stars and Baltimore Orioles (No U.S. team had
played in Cuba since 1959).* Human rights: U.S.
Congress passes resolution calling on Clinton to seek
UN condemnation of human rights in Cuba. Cuban
courts sentence Salvadorean Otto Rene Rodriguez
Llerena to death for setting off a bomb on 4 Aug1997.

NIGERIA

Death sentences: Eight soldiers sentenced to death for 1990
coup have been pardoned. Former officials of the Abache
Junta return $64 million they stole from government. •
Private sector: Abubakar Junta says it will proceed with pri¬
vatizing government-owned businesses and try to make it
hard for new civilian government to reverse the process.
President-elect Obasanjo furious that junta sold off best oil
concessions to companies owned by military officers.

■ L—

UGANDA

Peace talks: Government trying to arrange
peace talks with (northern) Lord’s Resistance
Army rebels, which would be first talks since
1994. LRA political affairs chief, David Nye-
korach-Matsanga, quits group, saying it was
only a “fifth column for the Sudanese army.”

DEMOCRATIC CONGO

Elections and massacre: Under heavy
diplomatic pressure, government
agrees at OAU summit to discuss elec¬
tions with rebels. • Zimbabwean MiG
shot down at Kabolo. • More govern¬
ment troops and civilians flee fighting
into Zambia. • Human rights groups
say rebels slaughtered 200 civilians in
South Kivu Province.

ISRAEL

Ultra-modern sub: First
ultra-modern Dolphin-class
submarine raises Israeli flag
in German shipyard in
spring. Israel anticipates
delivery this summer.

SUDAN

SPLA news: Sudan says it was
quietly negotiating with U.S. to
restore normal relations. SPLA
releases two Red Cross workers
arrested in February. Arab League
says “foreign plots” trying to
destabilize Sudan. SPLA repulses
government attack on Ulu, killing
400. Four Red Cross workers killed
during government raid on SPLA
camp where they had been held.

ETHIOPIA

Artillery duels: Front line remains relatively calm
except for brief clashes and artillery duels on central
and several fronts. Both countries continue to claim
the other is importing weapons and expelling citi¬
zens of the other. OAU efforts to mediate conflict fail.

World Sitrep is compiled in part from the biweekly
newsletter For Your Eyes Only: An Open Intelligence
Summary of Current Military Affairs. Published by
Tiger Publications (P.O. Box 8759, Dept. SOF,
Amarillo, Texas 79114-8759); subscriptions are $77
per year (26 issues), $81.80 in Texas. Sample issue
available for $3. Those interested in world intel are
encouraged to subscribe.

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

by Ray Pezzoli, Jr.

“Doc, is she any better?”

“No, her pulse is more irregular”

“Can / do anything for her, maybe give her some of my water or
put something under her to make her more comfortable?”

“You can dab some water on her lips, but don't let her drink ,
she's got that round in her stomach. Wipe her face with a wet cloth .
Don't let her move, she's been moved too much ”

“Will she make it. Doc? Will she last 'til we get her a Medevac?”

“Don't know, I don't know. There's still a pulse. The wounds in
her legs have stopped bleeding. The gut wound has stopped exter¬
nally hemorrhaging, but there's probably internal bleeding.”

American troops were endangering their lives, noisily hacking
the trail in enemy territory that could easily be followed.

I was amazed no one complained that their hardships resulted
because they were trying to save the life of a Viet Cong who 30 min¬
utes prior had been trying to kill them.

Frequently one of the men asked the medic about the girl's condi¬
tion and volunteered to assist carrying the stretcher or to clear the trail.

We couldn't make the clearing by sunset, so a night perimeter
was established at 1900. Everyone was alert for the attack we
thought imminent because of our obvious noise and movement. The
men had their hopes — if contact was not made that night — that it
would be easy extraction for the Medevac chopper the next morning.

The medic chopped a small enclave in the dense tough bush
and erected a shelter over the girl with an overhead canopy of
vines, branches and moss obscuring the camp from the sky. We
didn’t need friendlies dropping their loads on us after mistaking
us for the bad guys.

Just prior to stumbling onto the enemy base camp, the
author and his interpreter (and friend) enjoy a break.

March 1966.

I was patrolling the volatile jungles of Tay Ninh Province with the
1st Infantry Division, interdicting the flow of communists filter¬
ing south along the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Meters ahead we spotted an enemy base camp and squad of VC,
one of whom lifted a tunnel hatch-cover camouflaged with grass
and yelled something. We assumed we’d been seen and that back¬
up troops were being summoned to do a terminal number on us.

Not waiting for their cavalry to arrive, our pointman, two GIs to
his right and myself to his left opened up with three Ml 6s, each spit¬
ting six rounds per second, and a 12-gauge pump shotgun — loaded
with 00 buck — striking them down like bowling pins.

The camp was eerily quiet. We immediately secured the area
while men began to recon the tunnel complex with flashlights
and .45 caliber pistols. One had slithered some 35 feet along a
narrow shaft when his flashlight beam illuminated black pajamas
crawling a few meters ahead. He fired four times and the figure
stopped moving. Cautiously, he snaked his way toward the now-
moaning casualty, ripped away its AK and then pulled the WIA
with him as he squirmed backward like a human spider through
the tiny passageways,

After the troops hoisted the wounded soldier to the surface, they
recognized the target: an 18-year-old girl.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

ELECTRIC LOCK PICK

Most elec¬
tric lock pick ads
are grossly exagger¬
ated - and most electric
lock picks are grossly overpriced.

Enter the EIOOHO by SouthOrd Ma¬
chined aluminum construction and a 4.5 volt
motor combine with precision, durability and fac¬
tory support to bring you the greatest value in the industry. In¬
cludes four picking needles, three tension tools, and adjustment
wrenches. EIOOHO (assented) - $179.95

EIOOHO Kit-$99.95

AUTO
WEDGIE

For police officers, repo
people, wrecker drivers, auto repair
shops, car dealers, and anyone who
needs to open a vehicle, this tool that we fondly
call “The Auto Wedgie", is about all you’ll ever need.

Forget about spending hundreds of dollars on specialty tools,
bent wire devices, jigglers, tryout keys and so on. This Vonder
tool', by SouthOrd, opens.just about every car, van, and small
truck on the road—even the new models that are immune to a
slim jim. We know it all sounds just too good to be true—but buy
one, and you will be a believer! The set comes complete with a
Slide Rod, and a Nylon Wedge for compromising convertibles.
SJW-3 $79.95

SAP

GLOVES

I love these gloves—used
them for years! They're great protec¬
tion when climbing fences during a foot
pursuit just riding your ‘cycle, or protect¬
ing your knuckles when some cowboy decides to run his face
into them! Each glove has 8 oz of powdered lead embedded in
the knuckle area. Discreet protection. State size when ordering.
D-100 (deerskin) $69.95 pr. D-50 (cowhide) $39.95 pr.

BRASS

KNUCKS

A blast from the past! These ‘‘1928” knuckle dusters take us
back to the days of prohibition, black sedans, and ‘Tommy" guns.
They look great just laying on your desk, holding down those
important papers. And believe it or not, they are so slick that
many of our customers have used them to make foot pegs for
their Harleys!

KNB (brass) $13.50 each; $24.40 per pair
KNA (aluminum) $8.00 each; $14.50 per pair

SOUTHORD ^

RECON FIGHTER^^^^-

Ok guys, if you like a fighting knife that's built like a Hummer,
we’ve got one for ya! This beauty is heavy—and heavy duty, All
stainless steel construction with checkered rubber handles. The
feel reminds me of my old S&W 66 with the Pachmyers—it's
rugged, reliable, and it won't let me down! Believe it—once you
buy one of these ‘picks', you’ll never let it go! Comes complete
with a Web sheath. Overall length, eight and one quarter inches.
KN-2n $29.95

SOUTHERN

ORDNANCE

THE SOUTHERN ORDNANCE CATALOG - loaded with hard to find items
- Locksmith Tools, PeBet Riffles, Crossbows, Switchblades, Transmitters,
Bug Detectors, Books, and Videos, Boxing Equipment Pofice Supplies and
Much, Much, Much More! Only $5.00 or FREE with any order.

CHECK, MONEY ORDER, VISA, MASTERCARD. AMERICAN EXPRESS. OPTIMA
WARNING: Check Slate and Local Laws. Must be 18 years or older to orcter

www.southord.com

e-mail: talea@southord.com
P.O. Box 279 • Babson Park, FL33827

CALL (941) 638-2499 • FAX: (941) 638-2486

The medic did his best to treat her three
leg wounds, before noticing that she was
gut-shot in the lower abdomen. If she did¬
n’t get near-immediate hospital treatment
she was no doubt going to die. But we
couldn’t hang around. Enemy troops were
likely already beating feet our way. It was
time to E & E and disappear ourselves
toward the closest clearing, about a mile
distant, secure it, radio HQ and await the
Medevac’s arrival.

Doc devised a makeshift stretcher out of
his poncho draped over two legs of the
enemy’s table. Six men carried the stretcher
while two others hacked a 3-foot wide
swath to make this journey as comfortable
as possible for the dying girl.

Humping through the bush was more
difficult for the infantrymen doing the car¬
rying and hacking. In addition to carrying
the girl and their 65 pounds of equipment,
they fought the 105-degree temperature and
99% humidity. We wanted desperately to
make the clearing before sunset.

Frequently, a guy asked our medic about
the girl’s condition; others volunteered to
assist in carrying the stretcher or clearing
the path.

At 1900, we realized that reaching the
LZ was a no-go, so we put out perimeter
security and waited.

During that endless anxious night, prac¬
tically every one of the 45 men on the patrol
shuttled in to check on her. Our makeshift
“visiting hours” continued well past mid¬
night.

But at 0130, her pulse stopped; her
labored breathing ceased. Her face grew
cold. Our prayers went unanswered.

Early in the morning we dug a grave
and buried her on the precise spot where
she left the earth. Each of us paid our
respects, and many wild flowers floated
down to her grave.

I was asked to write about her death. We
did not want her to be forgotten.

Perhaps we could have moved faster —
perhaps we could have rendezvoused with
the Medevac before dusk. Perhaps it would
not have mattered.

Cold sorrow flowed through our veins.
But we had tried.

Circumstances abound where GIs
risked their very lives to aid their captives.
For every My Lai, there were many
redeeming incidents where saving a life,
enemy or civilian, betrayed our alleged
hearts of darkness.

The American philosophy of life is gen¬
erally humanitarian, even in the cruelty and
desperation of war. My war just happened
to be in Vietnam.

Experience the
Excellence

You can experience
the ultimate in
defensive revolvers
in both .41 and .44
Magnum when you
try the newest
revolver by the Smith & Wesson
Performance Center. Model 657 (.41
Mag.) and Model 629 (.44 Mag.) are
compact in size and feature the
shortest barrel available on the mar¬
ket today while still maintaining
full length case extraction by utiliz¬
ing a ball detent lockup.

Both of these handguns come with
Smith & Wesson's Lifetime Service
Policy. For the location of the Smith
& Wesson Stocking Dealer nearest
you, call 1-800-331-0852, or visit the
Smith & Wesson web site at
http://www.smith-wesson.com.

Also available in 8 shot - .357 Magnum.

All Performance Center Handguns
arrive in this aluminum Performance
Center Case.

TTlj Smith & Wesson

reriormance
Renter

“Performance by design,
Quality through Pride”

2100 Roosevelt Avenue
Springfield, MA 01102

This is Ray Pezzoli, Jr’s second contri¬
bution to SOF. His first , “Scene From The
Other Side Of The Tracksappeared in the
January 1999 edition . ^

* *Do the Right Thing -
Store Your Firearms Responsibly* *

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

JtifV OOQP6H

THE ART OP THE

FIGHT AT NIGHT

Tools, Techniques, Tactics, and Training for Combat in Low Light and Darkness

by Andy Stanford

Today the armed professional or private citizen facing a lethal opponent in the dark has a much greater range of options. In this book, champion practical
shooter and self-defense expert Andy Stanford shows you how to turn the darkness from a liability to an advantage, arming you with the knowledge and tech¬
niques you need to prevail in any low-light conflict. From relatively simple hand-held flashlights, light mounts and spotlights to laser aimers, tritium sights and
optical sights to the very latest high-tech night vision systems, Stanford gives you the low-down on the selection and use of a wide variety of implements that
can provide you with a significant tactical advantage over any attacker. Because you should never depend entirely on technology or equipment, he also dis¬
cusses hand-to-hand combat and shows how at times it is possible to combine technology with body weapons to defeat an assailant in the dark. 51/2x8
1/2, softcover, photos, illus., 224 pp. #10010510 $ 20.00

Electronic

Circuits

Secrets

PBOJECTS

Old-Fashioned Spy

CONTINGENCY CANNIBALISM
Supertiardcore Sunrivalism’s
Dirty Little Secret
by Shiguro Takada

Cannibalism is the ultimate test of
the survival's will to survive, and
this book is a twisted, hilarious look
at all of the hard-core decisions and
gruesome details one needs to
know. Includes case studies of the
Donner Party, the Andes survivors
and many more historical episodes
of cannibalism. For entertainment
purposes only. 51/2x8 1/2, soft-
cover, 160 pp.

#10010544 $15.00

HABD-CORE COLLECTIONS
Brutal but Effective Techniques
for Getting the Money
by David DeMercurio

Rnd out what it took this private
collections man two decades to
leam: the secrets to making a good
living collecting back child support,
unpaid judgments or past-due bills
of any kind, as well how to effect
evictions for grateful landlords. Find
out the legal issues and street real¬
ities of getting the bucks without
breaking laws or jaws. 5 1/2 x 8
1/2, softcover, 128 pp.

#10010551 $15.00

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND
SECRETS OF AN
OLD-FASHIONED SPY
by Sheldon Charrett

Learn from the last of the old-fash¬
ioned spies how to build bugs or
take advantage ot those in place;
assemble a DTMF decoder with
LCD readout or decode the phone
tones without one; construct a red
box for free pay phone calls; make
a crystal-controlled FM phone tap;
crack answering machine pass¬
words and more. 8 1/2 x 11, soft-
cover, photos, illus., 128 pp.
#10010528 $20.00

FIRST STRIKE
Mastering the Preemptive
Strike for Street Combat
by Sammy Franco

Leam how to stop any fight before it
starts by mastering the preemptive
strike. This book teaches the vital
skills of target assessment, fear
management, the compound attack
and offensive flow, the relocation
principle and secondary strikes to
finish the job. Get the upper hand in
any confrontation by following these
proven fighting techniques. 51/2x8
1/2, softcover, photos, illus., 200 pp.
#10010395 $20.00

PVC PROJECTS FOR
THE OUTOOORSMAN
Building Shelters, Camping
Gear, Weapons, and More
Out of PVC Pipe
by Tom Forbes

The craftsman behind the
ghillie suit video The Invisible
Advantage offers more than 30
projects for outdoors gear and
weapons made from inexpensive
PVC pipe, from teepees and snow-
shoes to pugil sticks and blow-
guns. 5 1/2x8 1/2, softcover,
photos, illus., 96 pp.

#10010411 $12.00

SKID ROW BEAT
A Street Cop’s
Walk on the Wild Side
by Loren Christensen

With humor, honesty and flair,
Officer Loren Christensen offers a
rare curbside glimpse into the gritty
urban world of skid row in this col¬
lection of true tales. In it he reveals
a bit of Americana that is quickly
disappearing and pays tribute to the
cops who have walked a beat there
and the colorful cast of characters
who have lived there. 51/2x81/2,
softcover, 200 pp.

#10010270 $20.00

TESTS

THE CLOSE-COMBAT FILES OF
COLONEL REX APPLEGATE
by Col. Rex Applegate and
Maj. Chuck Melson

The legend finally steps from the
shadows to reveal the truth behind
the countless stories of his service
with the OSS. Leam firsthand of
Colonel Applegate’s training and mis¬
sions with men like Wild Bill Donovan,
William Fairbaim and Eric Sykes. The
definitive reference researchers and
historians have been awaiting for
more than 50 years. 8 1/2 x 11,
hardcover, photos, Illus., 208 pp,
#10009892 $39.95

THE NEW WORLO OF RUSSIAN
SMALL ARMS AND AMMO
by Charlie Cutshaw

Paladin is pleased to be the first to
bring you detailed descriptions, spec¬
ifications and drawings of the latest
Russian small aims, Including under¬
water rifles, weapons that use silent
ammo, previously unknown rifles,
handguns and grenade launchers
used by SPETsNAZ and the heir
apparent to the AK-47, the AN-94.
Also includes a chapter on the new
ammo used by these weapons. 81/2
x 11, hardcover, illus., 160 pp.
#10009884 $39.95

ACQUIRING NEW 10
How to Easily Use the
Latest Computer Technology to
Drop Out, Start Over, and Get
On with Your Life
by Ragnar Benson
Forget about using the old "dead-
baby’s birth-certificate” ruse to get
new ID. Everyone’s on to that trick.
What you need is the know-how to
make your own documents on a
home computer. And by following
the simple instructions In here, you
can. 5 1/2x8 1/2, softcover, pho¬
tos, illus., 152 pp.

#10006005 $20.00

JUST SAY NO TO DRUG TESTS
How to Beat the Whiz Quiz
by Ed Carson

Urinalysis is a blatant violation of
human freedom and dignity, and
now you can fight back! Ed Carson,
who handled drug testing for a large
U.S. military base, reveals how the
tests are done and how to beat
them. He did it successfully for
eight years using the exact methods
outlined in this book. Rnd out how
to preserve your life-style and keep
your job. 5 1/2x8 1/2, softcover,
48 pp.

#10003754 $12.00

THE Y2K COMPUTER
CRASH SCENARIO
What to Expect and How to
Protect Your Assets, Your
Credit, and Your Way of Life
by Dr. John Mrozek
The looming Y2K crash could have
devastating effects on everything
from phone service to medical and
criminal records to mortgages;
bank and credit card accounts; and
investments. Get pragmatic advice
on basic precautions you can take
to minimize the damage. 51/2x8
1/2, softcover, 64 pp.

#10010072 $15.00

DISK DETECTIVE
Secrets You Must Know to
Recover Information
from a Computer
by Norbert Zaengfein
Disk Detective is designed to bring
the secrets of recovering data from a
PC, floppy disk or backup device to
the average person. It includes pre¬
cise instructions for recovering info
from reformatted disks or overwrit¬
ten files, retrieving deleted files, con¬
ducting key word searches, locating
e-mail messages and much more. 5
1/2x81/2, softcover, 112 pp.
#10009900 $20.00

FUGITIVE

Raqnax Benson

RUNNING,
'ft- HIDING.:
v V SURVIVING
AND"
IWRftWff
ifr&tr FOhEVEB

RAGNAR’S

GUIDE TO THE

PLACE AN ORDER
FOR $60,00 OR
MORE AMD TAKE
10% OFF!

Retail orders only, please.
Offer expires August 31,1999

RAGNAR’S GUIOE TO THE
UNDERGROUND ECONOMY
by Ragnar Benson

How would you like to get an imme¬
diate 40- to 50-percent raise? You
can if you go underground and stop
paying taxes. Ragnar shows you
how others are cashing in on the
underground economy. Find out
from them how to pick the right
kind of work, get paid in cash,
advertise your product or services
and prepare a financial statement.
For academic study only. 51/2x8
1/2, softcover, photos, 160 pp.
#10010262 $18.00

ADVANCED FUGITIVE
Running, Hiding, Surviving,
and Thriving Forever
byKennAbaygo
In this companion to Fugitive:
How to Run, Hide, and Survive,
you’ll leam the advanced evasion
techniques successful fugitives
have used to get gone and stay
gone for long periods of time -
perhaps forever - and you’ll benefit
from their experience and their
mistakes. 5 1/2x8 1/2, softcover,
photos, illus., 144 pp.

#10008522 $15.00

THE ART OF THE RIFLE
by Jeff Cooper

“Riflecraft has been completely
ignored since World War II,” says
Jeff Cooper, America's foremost rifle
instructor. To remedy this situation,
he took it upon himself to set down
the fine art of the rifle before it was
lost forever. In his no-holds-barred
style, Cooper instructs you In every¬
thing you need to know about shoot¬
ing the rifle, while entertaining you
with tales of marksmanship, combat
and big-game hunting. 8 1/2x11,
hardcover, photos, 104 pp.
#10008514 $29.95

DEAD ON

The Long-Range Marksman’s
Guide to Extreme Accuracy
by Tony M. Noblitt and
Warren Gabritska
Riflemen wanting to leam how to
make first-round hits at extreme dis¬
tances will find this book indispensi-
ble. Bullet flight, scopes and mounts,
caliber and cartridge selection,
mirage, wind values, actions, barrels,
stocks and much more are included
in this practical manual. 5 1/2 x 8
1/2, softcover, photos, 176 pp.
#10010106 $20.00

EXTREME CQB
Fighting Secrets of the
International Close Combat
Instructors’ Association

Get an inside look at the real world
of close-quarter combat as taught
to the world’s elite military, law
enforcement and counterterrorist
units. This dynamic video features
eight of the master instructors of
the ICCIA sharing their battle-
proven methods of unarmed com¬
bat, knife fighting, weapon disarm¬
ing and combat groundfighting.
Color, approx. 75 min.,VHS only.
#10010122 $39.95

PALADIN PRESS

P.O.BOX 1307
BOULDE&CQ 80306
OR E-MAIL US AT

VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT
vvww.paladin-press.com

P.O. BOX 1307-9HS . BOULDER, CO 80306 . PHONE 303-443-7250 . FAX 303-442-8741 • E-MAIL SERVICE@PALADIN-PRESS.COM

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AUGUST 1999

THE ULTIMATE
INTERNET TERBORIST
How Hackers, Geeks, and
Phreaks Can Ruin Your Trip on
the Information Superhighway
... and What You Can Do to
Protect Yourself
by Robert Merkle
This is an owner’s manual to the
■Dartekfe* of the Web. Read it and
weep. Then do what it takes to save
yourself from becoming roadkiil on
the Highway to Hell. 51/2x8 1/2,
softcover, 152 pp.

#10009231 $15.00

THE ULTIMATE INTERNET OUTLAW

How Surfers Steal Sex, Software, CDs, Games, and More Top-Secret Stuff on the Information Superhighway
by Robert Merkle

In this no-holds-barred handbook of cybercrime, Robert Merkle, a regular on the Darkside of the Web and author of The Ultimate Internet Terrorist, takes
you on the wildest ride through cyberspace yet. The Ultimate Internet Outlaw opens the door to an electronic underworld brimming with hacks, cracks and
forbidden files. Find out how those in the know steal CD-quality music off the ’Net, amassing huge libraries of top-chart songs; how adult “pay-only" Web
sites are broken into routinely by everyday Joes without degrees in rocket science; how savvy Darkside surfers download treasure troves of software, ail of
the classic arcade games and more off the ’Net - without paying a penny; and how hackers and others surf the Web without their Internet Provider (or any¬
one else) knowing what they’re up to. And that’s just for starters! it’s ail here - the hard-core stuff experienced surfers have zealously guarded ... until now!
51/2x81/2, softcover, illus., 96 pp. #10010502 $15.00

TACTICAL TRACKING
OPERATIONS
The Essential Guide for
Military and Police Trackers
by David Scott-Donelan
This is the best manual on tracking
you will ever read. Learn how to
track and apprehend fugitives
through woods, jungles and
deserts; relocate missing tracks; foil
countertracking efforts; run a solo,
four-man or multiagency effort and
much more. 8 1/2 x 11, softcover,
photos, illus. ,184 pp.

#10010114 $30.00

TECHNIQUES IN
COUNTERSURVEILLANCE
The Fine Art of Bug
Extermination in the Real
World of Intelligence Gathering
by Marinetti Companies
Legal and corporate intelligence
gathering can cost you big. This
book includes cutting-edge info on
taps, bugs, premises searches,
spectrum analyzers, hidden cam¬
eras and video recorders, infrared
beams and more written by a mas¬
ter countersurveillance technician. 5
1/2x8 1/2, softcover, illus.,120 pp.
#10010387 $1840

THE HOME WORKSHOP
.50-CALIBER SNIPER RIFLE
with BUI Holmes
Bill Holmes, the undisputed master
of home-buiit firearms, leads you
step by step through the process of
constructing the ultimate do-it-your¬
self project a home workshop .50-
caliber sniper rifle. This unique video
covers every aspect of the construc¬
tion process in meticulous detail and
includes dramatic footage of the
test-firing of the finished product
For information purposes only. Color,
approx. 60 minutes, VHS only.
#10010254 $3445

GET EVEN

The Complete Book
of Oirly Tricks
by George Hayduke
A hilarious overview of the methods
people use to get even with big
business, government and ene¬
mies. These dirty tricks range from
the simple to the elaborate, includ¬
ing more sophisticated schemes
devised by CIA and Mafia members
and political dirty tricksters. For
entertainment purposes only. 5 1/2
x 8 1/2, hardcover, 208 pp.
#10002400 $19.95

TACTIPU mQH
Street Stick

Personal Defense System
with Data Kelly S Worden

Leam the use of one of today’s
most devastating personal defense
weapons with this explosive four-
hour video course. Whether you are
a citizen, martial artist or armed
professional, these secrets of de¬
ployment, striking, blocking, throw¬
ing and control techniques will give
you the edge you need to survive a
violent encounter. Color, approx.
120 min. per tape, VHS only.
#10010429 2 Tape Set $5945

MEW

ua m

BY .iNCh L :y

NEW LD. IN AMERICA
by Anonymous

Want one more chance at life with a
"dean slate"? Trade in your old
identity for a new start Here is a
step-by-step guide to creating a
totally new you - with a birth certifi¬
cate, passport, driver's license,
Social Security number - all you
need for breaking with your past. 5
1/2x81/2, softcover, illus., 120 pp.
#10001006 $1740

THE SAFE HOUSE
Setting Up and Running Your
Own Sanctuary
by Jefferson Mack

This is a crucial guide for anyone in
need of a safe dace to lie low, be it
for a while or forever. Former spy
Jefferson Mack lays it all out in this
fascinating manual that covers false
flags, landlords, neighbors, surveil¬
lance, escape routes, interrogation
rooms, communications monitoring
and much more. 51/2x81/2, soft-
cover, 96 pp.

#10009926 $12.00

HOW TO GET ANYTHING
ON ANYBODY
by Lee Lapin

Get the goods on others with this
encyclopedia of advanced inves¬
tigative and surveillance techniques.
Here are expert ways to secretly bug
any target! info on lock-pick tech¬
nology, how polygraphs and voice lie
detectors can be tricked and much
more, including more than 100
sources for spy equipment. 8 1/2 x
11, softcover, illus., 272 pp.
#10007680 $4040

REVISED AND UPDATED

CREDIT

SECRETS

Howto Erase
Bad Credit;

Sob Hammond

CREDIT SECRETS
How to Erase Bad Credit
Revised and Updated
by Bob Hammond
This expanded Credit Secrets will
save you thousands of dollars In
fees, finance charges and interest
payments as you leam the very lat¬
est techniques to get rid of debt
once and for ail and establish good
credit. Discover proven tricks used
by lawyers, credit counselors and
other pros who charge handsomely
for their services. 5 1/2x8 1/2,
softcover, 136 pp.

#10008878 $1740

■ ■ ■ ; ZOOM

tNCvCiOPEWOr

ufr-iT-rCvkiliii 4Mik m:

_ Li

RAGNAR'S ACTION
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE
ANO PROVEN TECHNIQUES
by Ragnar Benson
Leam how to build weapons, trap
anything that moves, drop out of
the rat race, protect your privacy,
elude the bad guys, defend your¬
self, change identities, land a job
and live well - as well as a little bit
about everything else that might be
important 8 1/2 x 11, softcover,
photos, illus., 456 pp.

#10006112 $45.00

GUERRILLAS IN THE MIST
A Battlefield Guide to
Clandestine Warfare
by Bob Newman
Foreword by Robert K. Brown
Leam every facet of the grim, violent
world of guerrilla warfare: basic
fiekJcraft; mines and booby traps;
tunnel construction and strategy;
ambushes; urban and nocturnal tac¬
tics; interrogation, indoctrination
and exploitation; psyops; and mom.
For academic study only. 51/2x8
1/2, softcover, photos, illus., 232 pp.
#10008720 $2040

CREDIT CARD ORDERS CALL TOLL FREE 1-800-392-2400, USA AND CANADA

CALL 24 HOURS A DAY, 7 DAYS A WEEK. SEND $2.00 FOR AN 80-PAGE CATALOG OF OVER 750 TITLES (FREE WITH OROER).

P.O. BOX 1307-9HS • BOULDER, CO 80306 - PHONE 303-443-7250 • FAX 303-442-8741 • E-MAIL SERVICE@PALADIN-PRESS.COM

OTHER FASCINATING TITLES

The Modem Survival Retreat.#10009546 ..

Shadow War:

The CIA’s Secret War in Laos.#10002004 ..

Secrets of a Super Hacker.#10004588 .,

Get Even 2 ...... .#10004042 ..

The Drug Screen Manual: The Tests, the Technology,

the Risks, the Reality.#10009827 ..

WACO: The Rules

of Engagement (video) .. #10009322 ..

Don’t Get Mad—Get Even .#10007581..

Knights of Darimess: Secrets of the
World’s Deadliest Night Fighters... .#10009561 ..
Fugitive: How to Run, Hide, and Survive .#10004216 ..

VIDEOTAPES ARE NONKETURNABLE. DEFECTIVE TAPES WILL BE REPLACED.

I PLEASE SEND ME THE FOLLOWING TITLES;

RESPONSE CODE] 9HS

□ visa □ mastercard

□ DISCOVER □ CHECK/MONEY ORDER

■ Hard#

Exp.

! item#

Item#

j Item#

Item#

SUBTOTAL

! NAME

[ ADDRESS_

SUMMER DISCOUNT

10% OFF $60" OR MORE. RETAIL CUSTOMERS ONLY.

r CITY

PLEASE INCLUDE

DfTCTAftF £ UAUni INC

$5.00

| STATF

7IP

rUolAut a nANUUnu _

PLEASE A110W 2-4 WEEKS FOR DBJVEHY

TOTAL -

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Rinas , Albania — It’s Day 32 in the
NATO campaign against Yugoslavia, and
instead of being kicked to sleep in a jail cell
by Serbian ministry of interior police — as
was the case two weeks earlier — I’m
standing on the wind-and rain-swept tarmac
at a NATO-controlled airfield outside the
Albanian capital of Tirana, waiting for the
arrival of the first U.S. Army ground troops
and AH-64 Apache helicopters.

This is the first hot war in NATO’s his¬
tory, a conflict which will probably be
remembered as being the first war where the
weapons really were “smart,” where air-
power alone couldn’t force the withdrawal
of a low-tech, civilian-slaughtering enemy
and where Murphy’s Law finally caught up
with the United States Army.

When it came to rapid reaction, the
Army — not the Marine Corps — was sup¬
posed to have had it all figured out. Pre¬
positioned supplies and battle-ready battal¬
ions, each with its own airflift and artillery,
always trained, always at the ready to
deploy with little or no warning to wherev¬
er trouble brewed.

(above) Six U.S. Army Apache helicopters of
the 11th Aviation Brigade, based in Germany,
land at NATO-controlled airport outside Tirana
to be part of Task Force Hawk. As we go to
press they are yet unused, (left) At the end of
a three-day journey from her home outside of
Mitrovica, Kosovo, this ethnic Albanian
woman collapses with her children at a
refugee camp. Hundreds of thousands of eth¬
nic Albanians have been made refugees by
Serbian security forces.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

The problems of the early days of the
Gulf War — when American airborne units
sat in the Saudi desert for weeks with little
or no support — were long behind the
Army, or so it claimed.

The creation of the Southern European
Task Force (SETAF) based in Vicenza, Italy,
and the re-structuring of the 1/508th Air¬
borne Battalion Combat Team from the old
325th Airborne, the successful rapid deploy¬
ments to Bosnia at the beginning of the
IFOR mission in December 1995, and then
Kuwait in February 1998 certainly proved
the Army had finally gotten its act together.

So why was it, then, that Pentagon plan¬
ners took weeks to deploy the first company
of U.S. Army military police and nearly
another week to get the first three compa¬
nies of an eventual battalion-sized deploy¬
ment of 82nd Airborne Division troops to
Albania, when armies of such caliber as the
French had ground elements sent to
Macedonia at the drop of a hat?

“The Army maintains contingency plans
for missions such as this, and the contingen¬
cies spell out which units will go where and
be tasked with what,” an Army spokesman
from USAREUR (U.S. Army, Europe) head¬
quarters in Heidelberg, Germany, told SOF ,
“and the units assigned to Task Force Hawk
(The U.S. Army-NATO operation in
Albania) were not at full strength and had to
wait for airlift to get them there. The other
element involved here is that of safety. We
didn’t want to rush in there, have men and
women on the ground without proper sup¬
port and force protection then, God forbid,
something happens and someone gets hurt.”

Club Mud

On the ground at Rinas, the talk among
soldiers slogging through a U.S. Air

(top) USAF security team lands in Rinas, Albania,
as part of eventual 4,000-strong American force
in support of NATO operations against
Yugoslavia. (left) A U.S. Army soldier with the
elite 2nd Battalion 505th Parachute Regiment of
the 82nd Airborne Division stands guard at a
NATO-controlled airfield outside Tirana, (above)
U.S. Air Force personnel guard the main airport
outside Albanian capital of Tirana, (below and
inset) USAF C-17 transport disgorges troops and
supplies at NATO-controlled air field outside
Albanian capital of Tirana.

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Force-built housing area — nicknamed
“Venice” because of the ankle-deep mud
and open drainage canals — was a little
more forthcoming.

“The main problem behind why we did¬
n’t roll in here like gang busters and send a
real message to the Serbs is the military’s
‘cover your ass’ policy which has totally
infested every level of planning,” an Army
NCO attached to Task Force Hawk told
SOF. “No one, and I mean no one, wants to
be responsible for a screw up. Blame our
lack of speed on the Air Mobility
Command. Blame the lack of manpower on
cutbacks and downsizing. Blame readiness
problems on increased emphasis on simu¬
lated training against time spent at a field
exercise. Blame anything or anyone except
yourself or someone above you. That’s it in
a nutshell. The Army said it would create
more units like SETAF, but everyone’s too
scared to rock the boat.”

After four days of doing tarmac watch
at Rinas, all of SOF’s patience finally paid
off when a C-17 from Ramstein AFB,
Germany, landed around midday and
offloaded about 50 Army 18th Military
Police Brigrade troops.

The Army had finally arrived.

“Hell yes I’m ready to fight,” said an
18th MP Brigade sergeant as he guarded a
short convoy of Hummers standing on the
tarmac. “I think the Serbs need a good ass
kicking from us.”

Other GIs that SOF spoke with that
afternoon were just as gung-ho, reflecting a
strong sense among U.S. troops that
NATO’s fight against Yugoslavia wasn’t
some sort of White House stunt to shift
attention away from the president’s person¬
al or domestic problems ...

“I don’t think I’d want to be here if peo¬
ple back home were not in favor of this,”
said Air Force E-4. “I mean if people were
protesting against our involvement it would
certainly not help things much. But we take

our orders from the folks in Washington,
and whatever they say we have to do.”

Rangers In Rinas

There was also a strong belief at the time
that NATO would soon order the large-scale
buildup of troops needed to launch a ground
offensive against Serb forces in Kosovo.

Over the next few days things at Rinas
finally came up to speed with C-17s landing
about once every 15 minutes, offloading
tons of supplies, U.S. Army Rangers, some
SF elements and the first companies of
troops from the 2nd Battalion, 505th
Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd
Airborne Division.

Within hours of their arrival, soldiers
from the 82nd were providing security for
the offloading of crates stuffed with rockets
for the Army’s Mobile Rocket Launching
System (MRLS) launchers which had
arrived earlier in the week.

They were also busy searching through
pallets of cases clogging the tarmac looking

(top) U.S. Navy CH-53E Super Stallion at Rinas, Albania, to offload men and materiel for the U.S.
part of the NATO buildup in Albania, (above) Fresh KLA recruits from southeastern England, among
thousands of expatriates from Great Britain and the United States who have returned to fight
Serbian security forces in Kosovo, take a minibus to Yugo border from Durres, Albania.

for their flack jackets which had arrived
separately on another C-17 flight, while still
others spent hours cleaning out the years of
dust and dirt that coated every inch of the
former custom’s warehouse which now
served as their temporary quarters.

At least four Bradley fighting vehicles
were deployed around the perimeter of Task
Force Hawk to beef up security, and talk was
that M1A1 s would soon be sent to Albania
and roll up towards the border with Kosovo,
as soon as the majority of refugees could be
bussed south to more secure locations.

“Tomorrow we’ll begin doing log pats
[logistics patrols],” said 82nd AD Alpha
Company Captain Don McFarland. “I sup¬
pose we’ll also be setting up perimeter secu¬
rity for the Apaches and riding shotgun for
the MRLS guys when they go out.”

“I don’t know what the Rangers or SF
guys are doing here,” said an 82nd AD
Lieutenant, in an answer to our question
about the rumor that the Rangers and SF
troops in Albania were here to pick up a
recently captured Yugoslav army lieu-

~ '

jg|p 5q ^

Kosovar Albanian children await arrival of
Dutch army chopper with food, medicine
and relief supplies, at refugee camp just
klicks from border with Yugoslavia.
Hundreds of thousands have fled homes
in wake of Serb security forces’ atrocities.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

Delayed Deployment:

Doubts, Dichotomy
Deception or Doctrine?

The slow deployment of the
Apache helicopters as part of the
American “rapid reaction” force from
Germany to nearby Albania, and lack of
its use for its stated mission, has inex¬
orably lead to much speculation in the
press as to what the plan really may be.

Or if there is one. The support-intensive
but highly lethal AH-64 tank killers,
given favorable terrain as in the Persian
Gulf, have proved to be a deadly foe of
armor. The remarkably destructive, and
for-its-genre accurate, MRLS can
wreak havoc on massed troops, such as
an assault force at or near a vulnerable
border, and are great for prepping an
area prior to a combined assault by air
and ground assets — but are tactically, and doctrinally, unsuited for the precise destruc¬
tion of targets proximate to vulnerable collateral personnel or property.

This apparent dichotomy of Apaches deployed but not used has led to conjecture in the
European press that the Apache and MLRS [Multiple Launch Rocket System] units have not
been deployed for their stated puipose, but for other missions which are speculated to be every¬
thing from defending Albania against a Serbian invasion, to merely being part of a show-of-
force to weaken Serbian will to resist. More informed speculation has begged the question, if
rapid reaction for the protection of Kosovar refugees was the rationale, why not insert a Marine
force of Cobras? Surely the refugees would have opted for whichever would be the quickest.

The slowness of the Apache’s deployment and the lack of combat use since then has
also lead to untoward speculation in the Stateside press that the Pentagon was intention¬
ally dragging its feet because it either considered this not to be a good use of these assets,
or did not consider these assets to be combat-ready. Like armor, armor killers will go
where they can win. The terrain, the restrictive and known access routes and other terrain
features, plus the climate in southern Kosovo, may not be that place for Apaches.
Although equipped with sophisticated HARM missiles, Apaches remain vulnerable in
tight quarters to a ground-pounder with a heat-seeking, shoulder-fired SAM. They are
designed to operate, and their pilots train, as a ground-and-air team.

As we go to press, the Apache and MRLS assets remain unused and a clear picture of
the rationale of their deployment is yet to come into focus. We have repeatedly been
assured that armor on the ground in Albania is strictly for force protection. Failing Serbia
throwing in the towel, the question begs: If not these assets, then which? And when? Why
deploy Apaches and not use them? (Some have speculated the deployment was approved
only to illustrate the decline in readiness.) Will Britain’s call for ground forces win out
over German and other NATO-allies’ objections? Or will Milosevic cave and the question
be moot? Or will forces not deemed up to the mission train in situ to the point that reluc¬
tance to use them changes? — DM.

tenant and train the Kosovo Liberation
Army in how to use burst transmitters and
paint Serb targets. “I can only speak
about this company.”

Goodwill Gift

When SOF approached the Kosovo
Liberation Army, its spokesman Agim
Rashani said the KLA had turned over the
lieutenant as a gesture of goodwill and
thanks to the United States for helping
Kosovars. “It would be good if the
Americans trained the KLA, but I don’t
know if this is true,” Rashani told SOF.
“We will help them if they ask, but until
now I don’t know.”

From what SOF was able to piece togeth¬
er, the Yugoslavian army lieutenant was cap¬
tured by the KLA and turned over to the U.S.
Army at a KLA base near the Kosovo border
with Albania. The lieutenant was then flown
to Rinas, questioned and taken out of
Albania to an unknown destination. Geneva
Convention rules, we were reminded by
Army press officers, prohibits NATO from
parading the Yugoslav POW in front of our
cameras and using him for propaganda.

SOF also heard from reliable sources
that indeed, the Army did have plans to
make contact with the KLA to facilitate any
possible ground assault against Serb forces
in Kosovo. However, whenever we brought
up the subject, everyone from top to bot¬
tom feigned ignorance or flat out refused to
even discuss the matter.

“Security for that op is so tight hardly
anyone knows anything about it,” said an
Air Force Staff Sergeant. “I heard a little
through the grapevine, but I listen to CNN
for the rest of my news.”

It was time for a change of plans.

The Army was also supposed to have it
all figured out when it came to tank-sup¬
pressing rotor-wing aircraft — read: the
AH-64 Apache. For nearly two weeks it
trumpeted the imminent deployment of 11th
Aviation Battalion Apaches to Albania.

Serb armor, the Army told the press, had
finally met its match. Within days the
Germany-based Apaches — which had suc¬
cessfully destroyed 500 Iraqi tanks during
the Gulf War — were expected to be flying
missions from the NATO-controlled airfield
at Rinas to the killing fields of Kosovo.

The Allies were finally going to wean
themselves from high-altitude bombing and
go after the tanks, armor and troops respon¬
sible for the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

But as luck would have it, the realities
of battle in a region devoid of endless
desert and near-perfect year-round flying
weather, shot holes in the Army’s PR about
the Apache quicker than you could say
Slobodan Milosevic.

Days went by with no sign of the
Apache’s highly publicized imminent
deployment. Two thousand five hundred
Army and Air Force support troops at
Rinas were all dressed up with no where to
go. The press was getting antsy, and the
Army wasn’t talking.

Rumors quickly began circulating that

the Apaches had already deployed to secret
bases in northern Albania. Maybe Rinas
wasn’t where the Apaches were going to
make their grand entrance, the press openly
wondered. Other rumors had it that the
Apaches were going to land at Rinas after
making a surprise attack against Serb forces in
Kosovo so as to land before the cameras with
a notch already carved into their holsters.

None of the rumors even came close to
the truth.

Wet LZ = No LZ

For days, SOF learned from NATO
sources in Italy, the Apaches were kept from

deploying to Rinas because the airfield
lacked suitable space for the helicopters to
land. So, to solve the problem, Army engi¬
neers went ahead and began laying down
pre-fab surface material to act as helipads.
Then they discovered to their horror that the
ground below the helipad was so soaked with
water that the Apaches would sink under
their own weight if they touched down. Plans
then had to be made to clear a large swath of
the airport’s taxi-way of relief supplies ear¬
marked for Kosovo refugees, so that the
Apaches would have a hard surface LZ.

Continued on page 72

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Norman Hathcock, II: 1942-1999

America Loses
A Legend

by John Hogan

Photos courtesy Iron Brigade
Publishers' "Death From Afar" series

was a husband, a father and a
sniper who saved American lives.
When Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Norman
Hathcock died on 26 February 1999, an
American hero passed on to become a leg¬
end that will never die. Hathcock, beyond
question, forever changed the way
American snipers — be they cops or sol¬
diers — do business. Hathcock was 57.

To anyone who knows much about the
shooting sports or matters military, it’s eas¬
ily understood why the world has lost one of
the best snipers in the history of warfare. To
save the lives of U.S. Marines operating in
the 1960s in South Vietnam, Hathcock
made precision long-range shots under the
most difficult conditions that amazed the
world’s very best riflemen.

Hathcock’s shooting days began at age
10, when his grandmother gave him his first
rifle, a .22 caliber J.C. Higgins single shot.
Seven years later, he signed up for the
Marines on 20 May 1959, and entered ser¬
vice the moment he turned 18.

Shortly thereafter, he began a life that
would forever improve the under-appreci¬
ated military and police art of sniping —
an exercise that can do immeasurable
damage to enemy battle plans and morale,
saving the lives of American troops. Even
after being diagnosed with Multiple
Sclerosis in 1970, and later with
Parkinson’s Disease, Hathcock continued
as the world’s leading force behind
advancements in police and military snip¬
ing techniques. In retirement, he enjoyed
shark fishing for a short time. But in 1981,
10 years after being diagnosed with a
debilitating disease, Hathcock went back

The late Gunnery Sergeant Carlos N. Hathcock, II, USMC, was known as our nation’s ulti¬
mate Scout Sniper. His feats with a rifle are legendary. His heroism has been rarely
matched on — or off — the battlefield.

to work full-time teaching marksmanship (Ret.), Secretary of the National Rifle

to the Virginia Beach Police Department. Association, knew Hathcock for more than

To this day and for the foreseeable 40 years. Land started Hathcock’s career as

future, Hathcock is the subject of books, a sniper, served as his commanding officer,

magazine articles and lectures about snip- sniping partner and close friend,

ing. Two major sniper ranges were named in “The first time I laid eyes on Carlos

his honor before his death, and it’s likely Hathcock was in Hawaii at the second

many more will bear his name in the future. sniper school we were running for Fleet

Marine Force, PACPIC. He came over as
TUG Early Days one 0 f t h e students and he acquitted himself

Major Edward J. (Jim) Land, USMC fairly well. He wasn’t an honor graduate or

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

Hathcock in 1967, with his specially made scope mount and Unertl 8X scope, during Operation
Desoto, near Due Pho in the Republic of Vietnam.

And it was just like that was the command
to pull the targets in the pits. He fired and all
the targets went in the pits. Then the
announcer went through the litany and the
Army shooter shot a four while Carlos shot
a five just off the “V” line.”

It was the highly focused concentration
Hathcock displayed that day that made him
such a great sniper. “I’m going to tell you
something,” said Land. “Carlos was a fine
rifle shot. But all of the top Marine Corps
shooters and probably the Army shooters
could beat him on any given day. Carlos
was consistent but he really wasn't one of
our top shooters as far as winning matches.

“What made Carlos different, particular¬
ly in Vietnam, was that ability to concen¬
trate. I don’t necessarily mean concentrate
when he was looking through the sights.

Rather it was his ability to concentrate his
edge. After awhile in combat everyone
develops an edge. It is where to look, how
to be ready, that sort of thing. We all devel¬
oped that sixth sense, and all of us on the
sniper team over there developed that sense

Major Edward J. (Jim) Land, USMC (Ret.), was
the 1st Marine Division’s Vietnam primary
Sniper School organizer and in many ways
Carlos Hathcock’s mentor. Land proclaims
strongly that the men he chose to be snipers
were carefully evaluated to make certain they
were not fanatical, did not hate, and were in no
way inclined toward sadistic behavior.

anything like that, but he was obviously a
good shot. His battalion then sent him back
to shoot in the division matches. We were
competitors on opposite teams who won
medals in the matches. As a result we were
both sent on the same team back to the
Marine Corps matches at Quantico. After
that he joined the Marksmanship Training
Unit. We were both on the Marine Corps
Rifle Team from 1962-64. I then became
Captain of the Marine Corps Pistol Team
and Carlos stayed with the rifle team.”

Both Hathcock and Land represented
the Marines at the National Matches at
Camp Perry, Ohio, in 1965, and it was
there that Land saw Hathcock display
some of the characteristics that set him
apart from his fellow shooters and made
Hathcock a great sniper.

Hathcock was shooting for the Marine
Corps in competition for the Wimbledon
Cup. That match is viewed by many in the
shooting culture as the world’s champi¬
onship in long-range rifle competition.
Riflemen fire magnum rifles from the prone
position with telescopic sights at targets
1,000 yards distant.

There are many stories about Hathcock’s
last shot that day, but Land was in the crowd
watching and this is how he explains it.
“During the Wimbledon you win your relay
and then you go into a shootoff. The targets
are pulled into the pits, the range master
tells you to load and then you have three
minutes after your target comes out of the
pits to fire one shot. None of the targets are
pulled or marked until the end of the three
minutes and then all of them disappear.

“The announcer then says all misses
will be marked, and it is rare for a target to
come up. Then he says, at this time all
threes will be marked, and perhaps one or
two targets will come up. At that time the
individual whose target it was, rolls up his
mat, picks up his rifle and walks off the fir¬
ing line. Then they do the same for the
fours and the fives. If anyone has hit center
“V” which is higher than a five, they stay
on the firing line while the fives depart.
Then the targets come up, there is three
minutes for one shot, and the announcer
goes through the whole litany again.

“That year, after going through this pro¬
cedure four times for the four shots, only
two shooters remained on the firing line. It
was Carlos and an Army shooter. They both
loaded and had three minutes after the tar¬
gets came up. I punched my stopwatch at
that time and we sat there and waited. The
wind was swirling around and the condi¬
tions were pretty bad. Both Carlos and the
other guy lay there looking through their
spotting scopes and after about two min¬
utes, the other guy fired.

“At that point Carlos hadn’t even put his
rifle to his shoulder, then after about 15 sec¬
onds he shouldered his rifle and lay there
watching the wind. It seemed like he lay
there and lay there, and the tension was
building, as the stopwatch hand kept mov¬
ing. You could hear people in the audience
saying: ‘Shoot! Shoot!’ And finally, bang.

Hathcock (standing at center) at the Scout Sniper School, Camp Stone Bay at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
Transferred there in 1972, Hathcock became rifle coach for the 2nd Marine Division.

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Gunny Hathcock in front of his hooch on the Virginia Beach range, in 1989. The snipers are from
Virginia Beach Police and Norfolk, Virginia, Police Departments.

to a fairly high degree, but Carlos went
above and beyond that. All of us on the team
learned to operate in the environment.
Carlos became part of the environment.

“Everything meant something to him.
Every bird, every breeze, every sound and
color. They were all indicators to Carlos,”
said Land. What set Hathcock apart from
everyone else was his unusual ability to
concentrate on all the indicators in an envi¬
ronment and pull it in analytically. It was
that ability to concentrate that allowed him
to always take a target out after he acquired
it. That was when he was in what he termed
his “bubble.”

tending In Vietnam

In mid-1966, Captain Land reported to
First Marine Division headquarters in Da
Nang. The commanding general told him
that he wanted snipers operating in the
Division territory and that he wanted them
killing Viet Cong. According to Land the
general told him he didn’t care how it got
done “even if you have to kill them your¬
self.” Land had no people, no guns and no
range. What he did have was a list of the
very best USMC rifle and pistol shots in
Vietnam, and the authority to put them to
work. Hathcock was one of the names he
had on his list and Land quickly pulled him
out of the MPs. Carlos Hathcock became the
third man assigned to the new sniper team.

Until the Third Marine Division and
then the First Marine Division began sniper
operations there had been no formal sniper
units in the U.S. military since the Korean
War. During all of the nation’s wars, snipers
have played a significant tactical role, but
between conflicts, that skill had been de-
emphasized, and fallen into disrepair. So
that what Land and others were actually
doing was blazing trail for all of the sniper

Gunny Hathcock motivating students at early
morning stress shoot at a Virginia Beach
school in 1990.

efforts of the Vietnam War as well as the
tactical emphasis on that skill which has
become prevalent among the world’s mili¬
tary structures.

The standard that Land established for
the sniper team was one minute of angle or
one inch at 100 yards for men and equip¬
ment. It was the equipment part that was a
problem. Most of the rifles were MICs with
4X and 2.5X scopes, but they were later
accurized and some other rifles were
acquired. Training was with olive drab
artillery powder canisters that were long
and thin and tough to see.

Most of the sniper training however, was
on the job. Within two weeks after he start¬
ed, Land had snipers on the terrain hunting
the enemy. There was a famous VC sniper
team lead by the “Apache” operating on

Hill 55, inflicting casualties on the Marines.
They had a major enemy sniper problem:
taking 30-50 rounds into the regimental
command post every day. Analyzing intelli¬
gence information, Land decided that Hill
55 would be a good place to break in the
new Marine snipers, “We began operating
on the assumption that it takes a sniper to
catch a sniper, and we began to hunt them
down one by one.”

Land recalls one incident in which a
patrol of Marine cooks and clerks sent out
for the experience came under fire and one
Marine was captured by the Apaches. The
leader of that unit was a woman who had
been well-known for torturing prisoners.
“She cut on this young man about two hun¬
dred yards out from our wire, just to make
him scream. Carlos had to be physically

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

restrained from going out there. The next
morning, just before sunup, she emasculat¬
ed that kid ... and turned him loose. When
he came running up to our position it was
Carlos who went out and got him. Of course
that Marine bled to death before he could be
saved. It heavily affected Carlos.”

Not long after that. Land and Hathcock
were teamed up watching a trail alongside a
river. “A Viet Cong started down the trail
about the time we were changing over. It
was my turn on the rifle and his to observe.
He started sliding the rifle over when this
guy came along. I guess we both got buck
fever and started struggling for the rifle.
Carlos ended up with the weapon, but by
that time the VC had disappeared. I always
thought that guy would be amazed if he
knew what had kept him alive that day.

“Anyway, we were lying there and along
came a group of about five at about 1,200
yards. We called in artillery. The first
rounds landed just over them and they took
off running. The VC woman leader of the
Apaches and one man came running right
toward us. She was ahead. She got about
700-750 yards away and then stopped and
turned around. As she squatted down,
Carlos dumped her. Once a reporter asked
Carlos what I had said when he shot her.
Carlos told him that I had said: ‘Put another
round in the bitch.’ ”

Carlos also killed her accomplice. After
about three weeks, Hathcock and the other
snipers had decimated the sniper unit led by
the Apaches and had moved on. The snipers
began to be noticed by both the Marine
Corps and the enemy.

Once, when Land was away from the unit
for a short time, the Marine Public Information
Office did a story on the sniper team. One of
the team members had recently killed 11 VC
and the article named him and the rest of the
snipers. Land was furious, of course, and
managed to quash any future plans for sto¬
ries. In addition, he prohibited photographs
of the snipers as long as he was in command.
When Stars and Stripes published the story,
a price was put on Carlos’ and Land’s heads.
But the enemy wanted Carlos Hathcock, in
particular, and they almost got him.

Sniper vs. Sniper

As a result of the article, North Vietnam
sent one of its very best snipers down south
with the specific mission of hunting down
and killing Hathcock. Intelligence had a lot
of information about that guy; they called
him the “Snake Eater” because he literally
lived off of the land.

“Carlos was out with Corporal John
Burke,” said Land, “and this guy ran across
them. They started hunting each other is
what it amounted to. I was in the area at the
time and saw part of what went on. Carlos
and Burke worked very carefully trying to
get the sun to their back. The North Viet
took a shot at Burke. He saw the contour of
the canteen, thought it was Burke’s head,
and shot it. Burke let out a yell that he was
hit. And we yelled at him, “Move, move!”
and he rolled. He felt the warm water run¬

ning down his legs and he thought he was
bleeding, but he wasn’t hit.

“Anyway, they worked their way around
until the sun was at their backs and Carlos
happened to be looking through his scope at
just the right time. He saw the reflection of
the scope on the Snake Eater’s Mosin
Nagant and he fired at it.”

During that now famous incident, that
has been recreated in various Hollywood
productions, Hathcock’s bullet passed

The “D” Range (above) at Camp Stone Bay,
N.C., was officially renamed Hathcock Sniper
Range, (below) Despite his infirmities, Carlos
always had time for friends of all ages. Shown
here at the Secret Service pistol matches in
1996, Hathcock speaks with the sons of a
Maryland State Trooper.

through the enemy sniper’s scope before it
entered his eye and killed him. Both snipers
had exact aim on each other’s scopes. It was
a remarkable feat of sharpshooting.
Working under the stress of being hunted in
difficult terrain by someone who clearly
knew what he was doing, Hathcock had
made a one-quarter-minute of angle or bet¬
ter shot at 450 yards.

The engagement took place over about
four hours in an area of about a quarter of a
mile. It may very well have been the most
intense and skilled sniper duel in all of mil¬
itary history. Still, Hathcock remained mod¬
est, Land recalls, saying “I guess I was just
a little heavier on the trigger.”

Land was amazed, looking at the enemy

rifle missing the telescope glass. It was
tagged for return to Hathcock, Land says, but
was stolen before Hathcock would receive it.

Hathcock vs. 120

During another famous incident,
Hathcock and Burke kept an entire North
Vietnamese company of perhaps 120 men
pinned down for five days. The unit was
trapped between two rice paddies and the
two Marines kept them there. “They just
happened to catch these guys who were
obviously pretty green, on their way to
ambush some Marines. I think that Carlos
and Burke figured they had knocked down
between 30 and 40.”

None of those kills however, were ever
confirmed. When the two Marines pulled
out, they called in artillery fire and that fact
would probably have made it difficult to
determine which holes had been caused by
7.62x51mm NATO bullets.

Hatchcock is credited by the Marine
Corps with 93 confirmed kills. For a time,
that record was thought to be the most in the
history of United States military snipers.
But another Marine sniper was found to
have more confirmed kills. The one record
Hathcock set that has not been eclipsed was
when he used a .50-caliber machine gun
with a scope mounted to it, to knock a VC
off a bike at more than 2,000 yards.

On his way to an operation, Hathcock
hitched a ride on an amphibious tractor. He
was sitting on top when it ran over a 500-
pound box mine. Although he was wounded
by the explosion, Hathcock repeatedly went
back into the burning vehicle to pull
Marines out. He too received bums over
60% of his body.

By example, Hathcock has passed down
his selfless, humble warrior skills to future
generations. His son, Carlos Hathcock, III,
became a Marine Corps Distinguished
Marksman in 1996.

“I learned from my father that, ‘No mat¬
ter what happens to you, you must look out
for your fellow Marines.’ Perhaps that car¬
ing for his comrades is my father’s finest
example to me and to those who read about
him,” said Carlos III, in the book Carlos
Hathcock: White Feather , an authorized
biography by Norman Chandler. “Although
my dad always says, ‘I was just doin’ my
job,’ his ability and willingness to remain in
the inferno of the exploding Amtrak to res¬
cue Marines will remain sharp in my mem¬
ory for as long as I live.”

For decades after Hathcock’s Vietnam
heroics, a number of people — including us
at Soldier of Fortune — worked to get
Hathcock some sort of a medal or recogni¬
tion. A number of people were of the opin¬
ion that one of the great warriors of modem
times ought to at least get one medal. After
a great deal of effort, Hathcock was recom¬
mended by the USMC awards branch for
the Medal of Honor. Nearly everyone offi¬
cial signed off on the idea, but — mysteri¬
ously — the medal was downgraded to a

Continued on page 74

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

CZ75

S everal years back, during the last days of the
Warsaw Pact, a Brit friend and I drove north
out of Vienna, Austria to Czechoslovakia,

He had me bring along a carton of
distinctly American cigarettes and
as we approached the border, I
arranged individual packages of
Winstons across the dash and stor¬
age tray of his right-hand-drive
English Ford. The border guards at
that time still gave lip service to the
credo of Karl Marx, but once we
stopped at the checkpoint they liter¬
ally drooled on the windows and
windshield when eyeballing the
array of new smokes.

I asked my English friend if we
shouldn’t give them a couple of ■
packs when they turned away to
examine our passports and papers.

“No!” he stated firmly while main¬
taining a disciplined stare forward.

It wasn’t until we were well on our
way to Uhersky Brod that I asked why we didn’t give them some
cigarettes?

“The problem is not getting into this country. The problem may
be getting out!”

That was back in the bad old days, but we were making a trek
to the home of the one good auto-pistol to come from a
Communist country. The Ceska Zbrojovka factory, commonly
referred to as simply “CZ,” used to be located in Czechoslovakia.
Now, it is located in the Czech Republic. The town, Uhersky Brod,
remains the same, however, it’s just the country and the politics
that have changed.

The CZ75 was a revelation when it first appeared and it received
a grudging endorsement from no less an authority than Jeff Cooper.
Despite its origin from a member of the Communist Bloc, it was
designed from the beginning as a pistol for the West. In fact, it could
be argued if politics hadn’t got in the way, this pistol would have
earned a major share of the self-defense market.

That it didn’t, had to do with the realities of Cold War policies and

not its inherently good design. The
CZ75 was one of the first double¬
action/single-action auto-pistols to
feature a frame-mounted safety.

The provision of the frame-
mounted safety allows the CZ75
to be carried “cocked and locked,”
which at the time of its introduc¬
tion was an entirely new feature in
the world of double action 9mm
auto pistols. However, criticism
has been leveled at the CZ design because it lacks a decocking sys¬
tem once the hammer has been cocked. For experienced shooters
this is not a big problem. For inexperienced shooters, it is potential¬
ly dangerous. The main thing to remember is to always keep the
firearm pointed in a safe direction. Then, carefully and firmly grasp
the hammer, while gently pulling the trigger and lowering the ham¬
mer to a position of rest against the slide. The pistol is now able to
fire through a complete double-action trigger pull.

The CZ75, and later the CZ-85, copied the slide-to-frame fit of
the SIG P-210 in that the frame fits outside of the slide rails. Many
commentators have argued this is stronger and creates a more accu¬
rate pistol.

For our testing, I was provided with a CZ75 Compact in 9mm
Parabellum caliber. The Compact version features a slide that is
approximately three-quarters of an inch shorter than the full-size
CZ75 and a grip that is a half-inch shorter than that found on the
full-size pistol. The difference between the CZ75 and the CZ-85
variants is the lack of ambidextrous controls on the CZ75 for the

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AUGUST 1999

manual safety and the slide release. On the test sample these con¬
trols were found only on the left side of the frame. The frame and
slide are forged from carbon steel and the grip panels are black plas¬
tic. As per the current federal requirement, the magazine capacity is
restricted to 10 rounds, but it was soon discovered that older pre-ban
magazines for the full size CZ75 and many of the Italian-produced
imitations will fit and operate reliably in the pistol.

Of particular note is the inability of the magazine to fall free
when the release button, located on the left side at the junction of
the grip and trigger guard, is depressed. This is the result of a flat
spring-like device in the rear of the mag well. The magazine brake
covering the mainspring assembly prevents the magazine from
ejecting completely from the grip. However, it can be replaced by a
flat “drop free” spring available from CZ-USA.

The double-action trigger pull measured 13 pounds, while the
single-action trigger pull measured five-and-a-half pounds. The
sights feature the now standard three white dots, and although not

tritium powered, these dots are painted from luminous paint that
glows faintly in extremely low-light conditions. The rear sight is a
substantial blade with a square cut U-notch.

Shooting the CZ75 Compact revealed a well-made self-defense
pistol of the first order. Capable of keeping 10 rounds inside of 2-
1/2 inches at 50 feet, the trigger featured a distinctly two-stage pull-
in single action that took some getting used to. One thing was with¬
out question, however, and that was its reliability. This pistol
worked without malfunction throughout the entire 300 rounds I
fired through it on both outdoor and indoor ranges.

I’ve been a fan of these guns since my visit to the factory many
years ago. Oh yeah, it turned out we didn’t need the cigarettes to
leave the country after all. But they were nice to have along as con¬
venient “gifts” for our new-found friends, even if neither of us
smoked.

For more information contact CZ-USA, Inc.; phone: 913-321-
1811 or 800-9554486; fax: 913-321-2251. —Frank W. James

F urther in the new series of Colt professional-
quality knives that are named for classic mod¬
els of their various firearms, are the Police
Model and Detective Special. These liner-lock fold¬
ers are essentially identical, except for dimension.

The Police Model is 5” closed and features a 3-
11/32” blade, and as you would expect from the
name, the Detective Special is 4-7/16” closed and
has a 2-7/8” blade. As with anything bearing Colt’s
logo, they are both implements that are good to go.

Both feature a 440 stainless steel blade from
nominal 3/32” stock (although our mic says they are
closer to a full 1/8”). These blades are slightly
dropped at the point, with a false edge on top and a
pleasing, almost serpentine, overall shape. The blades came shaving
sharp and held a good edge through all the usual suspects such as C-
rat cans, leather, wood, various fabrics and types of cordage — and
they came through the tests nick-free and resharpened with facility.
Not being subject to casual nicking, and capable of holding an edge,
yet resharpenable with relative ease, can be indicators that heat
treating was done properly and the steel was not too hot and not too
cold when quenched; you know, like would please Goldilocks.

The blades are accurately shaped and polished, then bead blast¬
ed for a non-glare finish. Liner locks have been around for a long
time — we have a WWII Case folding machete with a liner lock —
and in the past few years they have undergone an energetic revival.
These two new knives from Colt both feature liner locks and handy
thumb studs for one-hand opening. These opening and locking sys¬
tems are a good combination for a duty knife, since often as not one
hand is otherwise engaged, and the nature of the work is such you
do not want a knife folding up on you before the task is completed.

The grip scales are precisely made from aluminum alloy, and
coated with Colt’s Magna-Grip rubber coating — a consideration in
freezing climes, especially if you wear a duty knife outside your
uniform. To further insulate the grips and provide better grasp,
inlaid in the left scale is a soft, textured rubber panel. The right scale
mounts a sturdy spring-steel clip, and the knives’ smooth lines and
excellent finish make them pockelable, as well. The top rear of the
blade is coarsely but precisely serrated to provide a purchase for the
thumb when thrusting, and there is a positive finger notch on the
bottom of the grip to further enhance control.

Each is also available in a silver finish: Whichever model or
color option one might choose, he will find them serviceable and
attractive, both good choices for a duty or field folder.

Available exclusively from United Cutlery or their dealers, Dept.
SOF, 1425 United Boulevard, Sevierville, TN 37876; phone: 423-
428-2532; fax: 423-428-2267. — Don McLean

P aperwork comes with the
territory for today’s peace
officers — and like any
other professional’s paperwork,
the paper impedimentia of
police work is less burdensome
and more productive if it can be kept organized from the onset.
And today’s “paperwork” is not your daddy’s yellow tablet and
stub pencil: forms, tags, tickets, cell phones, recorders and a lap¬
top computer are likely to be found in a modem police valise.
Keeping this modern gear useful means keeping it squared away.

As part of their Sidekick
Professional line of law-enforce¬
ment gear, Michael’s of Oregon
has introduced a police briefcase
with internal holster that keeps a
modem cop’s tools of the trade
secure, organized and instantly accessible.

The large (18” wide x 9” high x 3” deep), lockable center
compartment holds ring binders, legal files or a laptop, and it is
water-resistant and lockable. By unzipping a cover flap, the cen¬
ter folder opens to 6’ ? wide at the bottom for even more room,

Police Office

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

hand-irons, chemical agents or whatever
the occasion demands.

Made of tough, all-weather
woven fabric, Michael’s new brief¬
case has a web-reinforced carry han¬
dle and a detachable web shoulder
Strap. It is lightweight, strong, ergo¬
nomically designed for service, and
handy whether half-full or stuffed.

Recommended.

I Michael’s of Oregon, Dept.
SOF, 1710 Red Soils Court,
Oregon City, OR 97045; phone:
503-655-7964; fax: 503-655-
,7546; e-mail: info@michaels-
oregon.com . —- Don McLean

such as to carry photo gear.

A weather-resistant flap covers the front of the
case and is secured by two quick-release buckles, and
the flap also has a large zippered compartment. The
special quick-opening hidden compartment contains
a universal, ambidextrous holster that is fully
adjustable for position and secured by a large hook-
and-loop panel inside the compartment. The holster
can also carry a spare magazine, folding knife or
multi-tool. The outside of the panel has another
pocket for papers or a sheet of cardboard to pre- J
vent a handgun from imprinting. 4<

Opening the cover flap exposes a panel with y =s
secure pockets and a clasp for any number of appur¬
tenances such as business cards, a citation book, cell
phone, note pad, writing instruments, flex-cuffs.

N » accessory you can add I

is more important than a flash- mSb

Flashlights attached to a shoul-

definitely not aiming devices, f + gr y*

They do not replace the

weapon’s sights. These lights are used to illuminate the target and
permit proper target discrimination, to prevent popping a family
member or fellow officer. They backlight the weapon’s sights and
permit their proper use. If powerful enough, they can also be used to
momentarily blind your opponent. Self-luminous tritium sights do
not assist target discrimination in total darkness.

Common sense is required in the tactical application of flash¬
lights. They should be turned on only long enough to identify a
potential target — fire, if required — then turn the light off and
move. In the presence of potential danger, these devices should
never be used as searchlights to visually clear an area. They will
only serve to compromise the mission and draw fire if used
indiscriminately.

The most meaningful measure of the power of a flashlight for
comparison purposes is the total amount of light it produces, which
includes both the focused and wide-angle portions of the beam pro¬
duced by the flashlight. This is measured by an instrument called
an “integrating sphere” and given in “lumens.” This is a much bet¬
ter measurement for comparison purposes than “candlepower”
because, as commonly used, candlepower is merely a measurement
of the intensity of the hottest spot in the beam. This can be mis¬
leadingly high for flashlights haying either larger reflectors or

irregularly focused beams
with “hot spots.”

Laser Products (Dept. SOF,
18300 Mt. Baldy Circle,
Fountain Valley, CA 92708-
6122; phone: 800-828-8809;
fax: 714-545-9537

_ to pur-

P chase products or locate the

closest dealer/distributor in
your area) have come to domi-
| nate the field of combat flash-

* lights ever since their introduc¬

tion in 1987. Their latest prod-
uct, the Millennium Weapon-
^ light for the Colt Carbine series,

is an outstanding example of
combat flashlight technology at its cutting edge. I used one of the
new SURE-FIRE M500A Tactical Lights during my recent participa¬
tion at Thunder Ranch’s Urban Rifle. I installed it on my M16A2
which is equipped with an upper receiver (from the Colt law enforce¬
ment AR-15 A3 Tactical Carbine, #AR6721) that features a 16.1-inch
heavy barrel.

This is a three-battery (9-volt), lithium-powered system that
produces a superb beam of light. The batteries are held three
abreast, keeping the system compact. A most important feature is
the presence of three switches to control the light. A master disable
switch in series with the other two switches prevents accidental
turn-on of the light. The disable switch is a rotary-knob-type for
positive, “in-the-dark” activation. A pressure switch on the right
side of the two-piece housing will turn the light on as long as pres¬
sure is applied. It is protected by a side rail. Finger or thumb pres¬
sure anywhere along its length activates the light. A two-button
on/off switch on the left side will turn the light on and keep it on
until the off button is pressed. This later is a low-noise, low-friction
design which is also protected by a side rail.

The MH500A Tactical Light Housings replace the top and bot-

Continued on page 70

coiovrra

j r\r j

JJ JjUJJ Mjjj j

"■ftffl

JP I -J

This year's exciting schedule of events includes:

World-Famous Firepower Demo • Seminars • Participatory Events*

Awards Banquet with guest speakers • Expo Hall — now at Cashman Field, with acres
of accessible parking • New evening activities • SOF Submachine Gun Match*
Special events in the Expo Hall • Plus much more!

All Activities
Free for

Conventioneers!

Also included in your Conventioneer fee:

• Exclusive '99 Conventioneer T-shirt — specify size on coupon.
• Exclusive '99 Conventioneer pin. • One-year subscription to
Soldier of Fortune magazine — worth $60 on the newsstand!

* These events may require separate fee.

■ -i

SOF Convention Pre-Registration Form

□ Yes! I want to be a part of the 1999 Convention

□ Check or money order enclosed. $150 must be received by
Aug. 23, 1999. $175 after August 23.

Half refund by 8/23/99 • No refund after 8/23/99

□ Charge $_to my □ Mastercard □ Visa

Card Number | | I I I | I I | [ | [

Signature
Name
Address

City _State

HEADQUARTERS HOTEL

Apt.#
_ Zip

Phone Number
T-Shirt Size (circle one) S M L XL XXL XXXL

Mail with payment to: SOF Convention ’99 Pre-Registration
5735 Arapahoe Ave., Suite A-5, Boulder, CO 80303
Credit card payments call (303) 449-3750
or fax coupon to (303) 444-5617

The PALACE STATION HOTEL & CASINO
at 2411 West Sahara Ave., Las Vegas,
will host this year's convention.

Call 1-888-476-8706 now to reserve
your room. Be sure to mention SOF
Convention to receive our special low
rates, starting at $48 single.

■

’ “

Three-Gun Match - Cowboy Style

by Peter G. Kokalis (aka Poison Pete)

Photos by Chris Mayer

(right) Stage Five of Winter Range was
called ,; Cisko’s Cantina” and involved
10 rifle and 10 revolver shots.

(right below) Doc Pin fires his black-
powder single-action revolver at steel
plates during a stage at Winter Range.

rifles of the lever-action, rolling block and
Sharps types.

Two types of shotguns will be found in
about equal numbers: replicas of double-
barrel “coach guns” and the ubiquitous
Winchester Model 1897 slide-action. If you
use the Model ’97, you can only load two
rounds at a time. I have also seen older orig¬
inal double-barrel sholguns. By far 12-
gauge is most popular, but some shoot the
20 gauge. Usually, a light birdshot, hunting
load is used on the spring-loaded reactive
steel shotgun targets.

While the .45 Colt still rules with the
average competitor, many of the top com¬
petitors shoot .38 Special “wimp” loads.
However, most people shoot in these
matches to have a good time and enjoy
themselves. No more than a handful dance
to the frenzy of winning. The really old
and obsolete handgun calibers, such as .45
Schofield, .44 Russian, .44 Special, .44
Colt, .44-40, .41 Colt, .38 Long Colt, .38-
40, and .32-20, are making a strong come¬
back principally because of Cowboy
Action Shooting.

Competitive categories include
Blackpowder, Duelist (one hand only).
Gun fighter (a revolver in each hand),

Junior, Men and Women Modem (single¬
action revolvers with adjustable rear sights),
Men and Women Traditional (single-action
revolvers with fixed sights), and Senior.

In February of this year, the National
Championship of Cowboy Action Shooting,
called Winter Range, was held at the Ben
Avery Shooting Range north of Phoenix,
Ariz. There were more than 500 competitors
and many thousands of spectators in atten¬
dance. The event is sponsored by the Single
Action Shooting Society (SASS, Dept.
SOF, 1938 N. Batavia St., Suite M, Orange,
CA 92865; phone: 714-998-1899). 1 com¬
peted in the match and SOF staff photogra¬
pher Chris Mayer was on hand to record
some exciting images of this fascinating
event. Surprisingly, a substantial number of
those who compete in Cowboy Action
Shooting also shoot in the annual Soldier Of
Fortune Three Gun Match.

Why is Cowboy Action Shooting contin¬
uing to grow in leaps and bounds with no
sign of diminishing popularity? In my opin¬
ion, the answer is quite simple. The basic
American myth is that of the frontier. Our
hero is the frontiersman, the gunfighter, the
cowboy. It’s always been this way and, God
willing, it always will be. As Americans,
this is our single greatest uniqueness, no
matter what pallid eastern-seaboard urban
liberals may tell you. ^

{below} Arizona Happy Jack demonstrates that
.wood isn't .the only thing he can carve up out-

C owboy Action Shooting is the fastest
growing firearms sport in the country.
It permits participants to dress up like
their grandparents and play like their
children. It attracts all levels of soci¬
ety: men, women and youngsters of every
income, occupational and ethnic group.
Shooting pre-1900 firearms, or replicas
thereof, at non-humanoid steel plates, it is
completely politically correct. For that rea¬
son alone, it’s giving the leftist anti-gun
types fits. And that is reason enough for me
to love it.

Cowboy Action Shooting competition
always consists of a three-gun match;
revolver, rifle and shotgun. Revolvers are
all of the single-action type. Most prevalent
are the Colt SAA, Ruger Vaquero and the
Uberti replicas of Colts and such esoteric
items as the Model 1875 Schofield break-
top, automatic ejector revolver. You need
two revolvers to compete. Mounted horse¬
back competition makes use of commeal
blanks fired at balloons.

Lever-action rifles used in Cowboy
Action Shooting matches are of pistol cal¬
iber and often match the caliber of the
shooter’s revolvers. Marlin and Uberti’s
Winchester and Henry replicas prevail. But
some compete with original Winchesters. A
separate long-range rifle competition is con¬
ducted using rifle-caliber and pistol-caliber

The German Ground War in Yugoslavia

olicymakers talk constantly
about the lessons of the
Vietnam War. There are many
— perhaps as many as there
are policymakers — but one
in particular seems to surface
every time U.S. troops head
overseas: Involvement in
local conflicts risks getting
bogged down in an endless guerrilla war.
And guerrilla wars, we’re told by the
Vietnam experience, are “unwinnable ”

Witness the political debate over the
ongoing war in Yugoslavia. NATO stead¬
fastly resists the idea of introducing ground
troops in Kosovo, preferring to let air power
do the job. Lurking behind this reluctance is
the myth of the invincible guerrilla. If
NATO troops go in, they will face a long
war in the mountains of Yugoslavia.
Vietnam is inevitably conjured up, but
many politicians and pundits are also look¬
ing to the Balkans themselves for lessons.
During World War II, Germany invaded
Yugoslavia, giving birth to one of the most
enduring legends of the war — Tito and his
“partisan” guerrillas. They rose from the
destruction of the Nazi assault to fight in the
mountains and eventually prevail against
overwhelming odds.

The story is oft repeated at the highest
levels in official Washington. “In World
War II,” opined Republican Congressman
Randy Cunningham as he argued against
sending ground troops to the Balkans,
“Germany had 700,000 troops in Kosovo.
The Chechens [sic], with one half the force
that Milosevic has, killed those Germans.”
Historians will be shocked to learn these
“new” details, but there’s an even larger
problem here: Cunningham’s goofy history
lesson really does lie at the heart of the pol¬
icy misperceptions that seemingly drive the
Clinton administration’s decision-making.

First, the history lesson Cunningham
should have learned about World War II

Yugoslavia: Germany used fewer than
700,000 troops to take all of Yugoslavia —
which it accomplished in less than two weeks
with a loss of fewer than 200 men; most units
were then withdrawn to fight elsewhere. The
“Chechens”— in reality Chetniks — were
Serbian guerrillas who, while they did cause
the Germans trouble, spent much of their
time bickering with the communist Partisans
controlled by Tito, a Croat. When the
Germans did choose to leave Yugoslavia in
1944 (they were not all “killed”), they did so
in good order, barely hampered by the guer¬
rillas. The Allies had hoped those troops
would be battered during their retreat so they
could not be used on other fronts. So much
for the invincible guerrillas.

The real lesson here — one that should
be considered by decision-makers — is the
traditional fragility of the Yugoslav political

and military system, not the specter of guer¬
rilla war. For it is a conventional army that
NATO will face on the ground if it enters
Yugoslavia, not insurgents. Hitler encoun¬
tered some of the same dynamics in 1941 as
exist today: an army equipped with obsolete
weapons and short on combat experience
(massacring civilians in Bosnia and Kosovo
does not count), political leaders driven by
nationalism rather than national interests
and a population riddled with ethnic hatred.
When the German war machine rolled into
Yugoslavia, it did so unhindered by the
army or by the rugged terrain. And this was
no surprise attack; the Yugoslavian Army
knew it was coming.

The Balkans During World War II

When war broke out in Europe in 1939,
conquest of the Balkans was not one of

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

The Everett Collection

German soldiers execute a hostage in Krusevac, Serbia,
after conquering Yugoslavia in less than two weeks with a
loss of fewer than 200 men.

Hitler’s primary goals. Here was a
hotbed of political intrigue and his¬
torical conflict, a region that every¬
one would just as soon stay away
from except for the fact that all the
competing powers — Germany,

Italy, the Soviet Union and Great
Britain — had conflicting interests
there. From the beginning, Adolf
Hitler professed to hold no territor¬
ial ambitions in the Balkans.

The Soviet Union, which main¬
tained an uneasy peace with Nazi
Germany, eyed the Balkans as both
a buffer zone and a pathway to the
warm-water ports that it lacked.

But Hitler tried to keep communist
leader Josef Stalin’s attentions
turned elsewhere, encouraging him
to fulfill age-old Russian ambitions in the
Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea instead.
But Moscow also had designs on the
Dardanelles and the Danube area, where
their political and military aspirations
clashed with German economic interests.
Stalin often took advantage of Germany’s
preoccupation with its campaign in Western
Europe to bully the Baltic states.

Italy, a charter member of Hitler’s Axis
alliance, had very definite ambitions in the
Balkans, and took immediate steps to fulfill
them. Italian leader Benito Mussolini
moved on Albania and Greece in 1940, but
his incompetent military soon became
bogged down. Hitler was furious. Sensing
that Italian aggression would attract the
British to the region, he warned Mussolini
that his failure “struck a blow at the belief
of our invincibility, that was held by friend
and foe alike.” Nor did Hitler like having an
enemy in his rear — the soft underbelly of
Europe — even one as small as Greece.
Since Italy had proved itself unequal to the
task, Hitler would take it on himself.

Germany could not move directly on
Greece because four countries stood in the
way: Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and
Yugoslavia. The first two were in Hitler’s
pocket; in fact their cooperation with the
Third Reich meant German troops were
already stationed there. And Bulgaria,
though not as pro-Nazi as Hungary and
Romania, had been pressured into joining
the Tripartite Pact on 1 March 1941. Hitler
could strike at Greece through Bulgaria, but
that might leave him vulnerable to
Yugoslavia, the one Balkan country still
uncommitted to the Axis cause.

Wooing Yogoslavia

Greece was Britain’s primary concern in
the Balkans, which made the German threat
to Yugoslavia London’s business. By
February 1941, British Foreign Minister
Anthony Eden believed that Germany had
the “obvious intention of invading Greece”
and he encouraged Yugoslavia to join the
Allies.

Hitler also invited Yugoslavia to join his
alliance, but Belgrade tried to sit on the
political fence. Nazi threats and promises
failed to convince Prince Paul, the Yugoslav

regent, to give his allegiance to the Reich.
Hitler tried once more in February, inviting
the reluctant regent to Germany so he could
personally woo him. Prince Paul was tempt¬
ed by German promises to guarantee
Yugoslavia’s territorial integrity, but his
sympathies for Greece (his wife was Greek)
and his dislike of Italian ruler Mussolini
made the decision a tough one. In the end,
however, the prince decided to sign the
Tripartite Pact, but only if Yugoslavia
would not be expected to lend military
assistance or allow German troops to pass
through its territory.

Hitler was not pleased, but he accepted
the conditions. On 25 March the Yugoslav
Crown Council signed the agreement — a
move greeted by public outcry and a coup
led by a former Yugoslav Air Force com¬
mander, General Dusan Simovic. Two days
later the rebels had overthrown the govern¬
ment and installed the youthful heir to the
throne, Peter II, as king.

Decision to Invade

The coup caught Hitler by surprise.
Taking the reversal as a personal insult.
Hitler called together his generals on 27
March and railed at them, demanding that
they launch immediate attacks from the
north and east. Field Marshall Wilhelm
Keitel, chief of the Oberkommando der
Wehrmacht (OKW, the German armed
forces high command), pointed out that this
was impossible as German troops were still
secretly planning for the invasion of the
Soviet Union, Operation Barbarossa, and
units already in Bulgaria were too weak for
such an attack. Hitler waved aside the
objections. “Now I intend to make a clean
sweep of the Balkans,” he told his officers,
“it is time people got to know me better.”
The solution, Hitler concluded, was “to
smash Yugoslavia militarily and as a state.”

Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German
foreign minister, cautioned that a final ulti¬
matum should be issued before attacking,
but Hitler would not be deterred. “Is that
how you size up the situation?” he
screamed. ‘The Yugoslavs would swear
black is white. Of course, they say they
have no warlike intentions, and when we
march into Greece they will stab us in the

back.” The attack was to begin at
once. Hitler insisted, and would be
“carried out with merciless harsh¬
ness and that the military destruction
would be done in the Blitzkrieg
style” so as to frighten the Greeks
and nearby Turkey.

Hitler then summoned the
Hungarian and Bulgarian ministers,
promising them territorial gains if
their countries cooperated in the
invasion. But the carrot concealed a
stick. “Whom the gods would
destroy,” warned Hitler, “they first
make mad.” Even without this threat,
neither country would likely have
stood in Hitler’s way, and they quick¬
ly agreed to the plan.

That night Hitler issued Directive
Number 25, calling for simultaneous attacks
on Yugoslavia and Greece. He cabled
Mussolini with news of his plan (the Italian
leader had been kept out of the loop). II
Duce was “to cover the most important
passes leading from Yugoslavia to Albania
with all available forces and to quickly rein¬
force the Italian troops along the Italian-
Yugoslav border.” It was Mussolini’s job to
protect the German flank.

Hitler expected his troops would have
little trouble dispatching Yugoslavia, but
dealing with the troublesome Slavs meant
that the invasion of the Soviet Union would
have to wait. More than anything else, this
delay angered the Fuhrer and he demanded
that the offensive be fast and furious. “The
storm,” he promised, “will burst over
Yugoslavia with a rapidity that will dumb¬
found those gentlemen!”

Yugoslavia’s Defenses

Geography was Yugoslavia’s best
defense. The Balkans extend from the
Danube River to the Aegean Sea and from
the Black Sea to the Adriatic, with
Yugoslavia forming the northwestern and
central portion of the peninsula. The
Yugoslav coastline along the Adriatic runs
for 400 miles, backed by the Dalmatian
Alps. Stretching across the peninsula,
roughly from east to west, are the Balkan
Mountains — high ranges cut through by
several passes, but with poor roads.

Yugoslavia’s inland frontier extended
some 1,900 miles and bordered on seven
countries. With a land surface about the size
of Oregon, Yugoslavia’s population in 1941
was about 16 million — almost 7 million
Serbs and more than 3 million Croats, the
country’s two largest ethnic groups (the
remainder were Slovenes and other minori¬
ties). Belgrade, the capital, was home to
400,000 people, and Zagreb, the largest
Croatian city, held about 200,000.

Yugoslavia would be hard-pressed from
the onset. Belgrade’s army was stretched
along the frontier, leaving virtually nothing
in reserve. On paper, the armed forces had 1
million men in 29 divisions under arms, but
the reality was that only a fraction were
mobilized, most of them near the Bulgarian
border. To make matters worse, internal

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Hostages in Pancevo, Yugoslavia, are executed by soldiers of the Wehrmacht in 1941. In making
decisions about NATO war in the Balkans, policymakers should consider traditional fragility of
Yugoslav political and military system, not specter of guerrilla war. It’s a conventional army NATO
will face on the ground if it enters Yugoslavia, not insurgents, just as Hitler encountered in 1941.

friction between Serbs and Croats under¬
mined combat effectiveness.

The Offensive

Before dawn on 6 April, the first wave of
German planes droned over Yugoslavia on
their way to attack Belgrade. Flying from air¬
fields in Austria and Romania, 150 bombers
pounced on the sleeping city, raining down
bombs for almost an hour-and-a-half. The
Yugoslav Air Force and the city’s anti-air¬
craft defenses were quickly destroyed, and
17,000 civilians perished in the bombing.
Only two German planes were shot down.
There was no concern for “collateral dam¬
age.” The devastating blow wiped out much
of the Yugoslav Army’s communications and
only narrowly missed killing much of the
general staff. With Belgrade out of the way,
the Luftwaffe could devote its efforts to sup¬
porting the German ground attack.

Beneath the curtain of bombers, the
Second Army, commanded by General
Maximilian von Weichs, crossed the border
from Hungary. Its objective was not to head
straight for the capital, but to secure the
bridges across major rivers so the rest of the
army could move unhindered. The XLVI
Panzer Corps established bridgeheads along
the Mura and Drava Rivers, meeting little
resistance from the Yugoslavs. Much of the
area was under the control of Croat troops,
many of whom welcomed the Germans as
liberators from the Serbs.

Early on the morning of 8 April, the
Twelfth Army’s First Panzer Group, under
General Edwald von Kleist, raced out of

Bulgaria. Crossing the border near Pirot in
southern Yugoslavia, the XIV Panzer Corps,
spearheaded by the 11th Panzer Division,
advanced northwest toward the town of Nis.
Behind the tanks was another armor division,
the 5th Panzer, as well as the 294th Infantry
and 4th Mountain Divisions. Despite rain,
mud and some stiff resistance from the
Yugoslav Army, the German tanks broke
through the lines by the end of the first day
and rumbled into Nis. During one sharp bat¬
tle, more than 5,000 Yugoslav soldiers were
captured. Without pausing, the Germans then
headed for Belgrade, speeding up as the
roads improved through the Morava Valley
nearer the capital. By 12 April the spearhead
was less than 40 miles from the capital, over¬
running part of the one wing of the retreating
Yugoslav Army in the process.

A second armored thrust, this one from
Romania to the north, crossed the border
near the town of Vrsac, a mere 45 miles

Mighty German tanks rumble through one of
Belgrade’s main thoroughfares after the
Yugoslav capital was crushed in May 1941.

from Belgrade. This was the XLI Panzer
Corps, led by Gross Deutschland Motorized
Infantry Regiment, closely followed by the
2d SS Motorized Infantry Division. They
had very little trouble reaching Belgrade’s
doorstep by 11 April.

The third attack came from the Second
Army’s XLVI Panzer Corps launching from
the north out of Hungary and Slovenia on
the evening of 6 April. They established
bridgeheads across the major rivers, but
found that most of the enemy units were
Croats, many of whom refused to resist the
Germans. By 12 April the corps’ 8th Panzer
Division, with the 16th Motorized Infantry
Division following behind, was 12 miles
from Belgrade.

All three attack forces were converging
on the capital. Early on the evening of 12
April, SS Obersturmfuehere (First
Lieutenant) Klingenberg of the 2d SS
Motorized Infantry Division took a patrol
across the Danube River and hoisted the
Nazi flag above the German embassy. Two
hours later the mayor of Belgrade handed
| over the city to Klingenberg. By the next
^ morning most of the three spearheads had
| also reached the capital.

After the fall of Belgrade the Germans
concentrated on chasing and destroying
remnants of the Yugoslav Army, especially
near Sarajevo in the heart of Yugoslavia,
which was taken by the 8th and 14th Panzer
Divisions on 15 April. Leaving only a few
units to garrison the town, the German tanks
wheeled and raced south in pursuit of other
fleeing enemy troops.

On 17 April it was all over. Yugoslavia
surrendered unconditionally to the Germans
the following day. Hitler had believed the
campaign would take at least two months,
but the German Army had taken just 12
days to conquer the country, with only 151
men killed and 392 wounded. Yugoslav
losses were unknown, but 254,000 were
taken prisoner.

What did it all mean? Was this just
another Blitzkrieg victory in Germany’s
early march toward victory in Europe? The
answer is a yes ... and no. German tactics
had once again carried the day, but there
were some significant differences that set
the Yugoslav campaign apart. Most signif¬
icantly, this marked the first time Hitler
had to plan an impromptu offensive and
execute it using a coalition. Previous cam¬
paigns in Western Europe had been care¬
fully planned affairs, but in Yugoslavia,
circumstances demanded that the Germans
strike before their forces were fully assem¬
bled. Nor was Hitler used to arranging his
plans to suit other nations, in this case
Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania.
Troops from all these countries played a
role in the fighting, though it was clear
from the beginning that the German Army
would command the campaign and bear
the brunt of the fighting.

The Yugoslav offensive was also one of
the first times that the German Army had to
take primitive roads and rugged terrain into
account. There would be plenty more of that

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AUGUST 1999

in the months and years ahead, but many of
the lessons were learned in the Balkans. The
campaign was really more about overcom¬
ing obstacles than vanquishing enemies.
Key objectives were always rivers and
mountain passes; getting to them before
weather or the enemy closed them off. Once
this was achieved, the traditional German
tactics of armor and speed took over, allow¬
ing them to reach the Yugoslav rear.

Yugoslavia knew it had no chance
against the German juggemaught. The army
relied on the weather and terrain, but this
was not enough. After the coup, there could
be little doubt Germany would invade, yet
the Yugoslav military failed to mass their
forces around strategic points and natural
terrain barriers, choosing instead to scatter
units along the country’s frontier. By
attempting to hold everywhere, they failed
to hold anywhere.

Perhaps even more instru¬
mental in Yugoslavia’s defeat
were the deep ethnic rifts within
the army. The Serbs opposed
Germany, while the Croats,
looking for a friend to help them
rebel against the Serbs, wel¬
comed the invaders. Entire Croat
units threw away their weapons
in the face of the German attack;
in some instances they even
joined in attacks on Serb units.

In one instance, Croat troops
attacked the headquarters of the
Yugoslav First Army Group and
held its staff prisoner until they
were rescued by Serb troops.

The Germans naturally took
advantage of this ethnic rift,
though Hitler could care less
about their national ambitions.

“That is none of our business,”
he reportedly remarked. “If they
want to bash each other’s heads
in, let them go ahead.”

But while ethnic tensions
helped speed the German victory,
they also contained the seeds of
insurgency. Winning a campaign against an
enemy army is one thing, “pacifying” the
hostile population is quite another. The
German Army’s easy victory led it to under¬
estimate the true fighting spirit of the
Yugoslav people, though they quickly
learned of their mistake. Taking sanctuary
in the mountains, various ethnic groups
formed guerrilla units and began harassing
the occupiers. By the end of 1941 Hitler
regarded this as a threat. “Before next
spring,” he wrote to Mussolini, “every
nucleus of insurrection must be wiped out
or else we run the risk of having to fight a
subsidiary war in the Balkans.”

Easier said than done.

Guerrilla War

Hitler’s attention was focused on the
Soviet Union, which he planned to invade
in June 1941 — less than two months after
the fall of Yugoslavia. Since there was nei¬
ther the time nor the manpower for prison¬

ers of war, the Germans freed them and
withdrew most of their troops. Hitler real¬
ized that unemployed and disaffected sol¬
diers were the seeds of a resistance move¬
ment, but there was little choice.

Yugoslavia was dismembered — parts
went to Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria — but
Germany was concerned mainly with
exploiting the Balkans’ natural resources,
which were used to feed the German war
machine. To keep the peace and enforce its
interests in Yugoslavia, Hitler left only the
Twelfth Army, commanded by General
Wilhelm List, which was whittled down
from 12 divisions to four — the 704th,
714th and 717th Infantry Divisions in
Serbia and the 718th Infantry Division in
Croatia. More units would be added in late
1943, but most came and went as the situa¬
tion demanded.

Guerrilla warfare began almost immedi¬

ately, and like everything else in
Yugoslavia, it was hampered by an internal
national and ethnic cleavage. Croats backed
Germany, forming the Ustashi collabora¬
tionist regime which performed much of the
Nazis’ dirty work. Many members of the
Muslim minority also helped the Nazis; in
1943 Germany formed a division of
Bosnian Muslims called the Wajfen-Gebirgs
Division der SS to fight the guerrillas. Like
the Ustashi, the Bosnian SS unit was
involved in many atrocities against the
Serbs (not that the Serbs were blameless —
they also tried to destroy the Muslim minor¬
ity during the ensuing guerrilla war).

The main guerrilla resistance followed
two leaders. A Pan-Serb movement under
the command of former Yugoslav Army
Colonel Draza Mihailovic gained momen¬
tum in mid-1941, and soon became the
armed force of the Yugoslav government in
exile under King Peter II. Called Chetnik
after the groups that fought Turkish domi¬

nation before World War I, they tended to
favor sabotage and small-scale action in
order to prevent horrifying reprisals from
the Germans and their Croatian allies.

The other major guerrilla group took the
name Partisans. Commanded by Josip Broz
— better known as Tito — they were com¬
munists with strong ties to Moscow, Tito’s
men were ideologically driven — rather
than nationalistic — so they were less like¬
ly to be tied to any single area. As a result,
they struck far and wide, often in areas
where German reprisals would hit Serbs
loyal to Mihailovic. Chetnik and Partisan
drifted farther apart until much of the fight¬
ing was among themselves rather than
against the Germans.

General List launched his first offensive
against the guerrillas in November 1941.
Tito’s partisans bore the brunt of the fight¬
ing before being forced to retreat into the
mountains of northwestern
Yugoslavia. German and Usta¬
shi reprisals were horrific:
Thousands of Serbs were exe¬
cuted — including more than
400 school children — and
thousands more driven into
forced labor camps. Four more
major offensives followed
before the German retreat from
Yugoslavia in late 1944.
According to Yugoslav figures,
the country lost 1.7 million peo¬
ple during the German occupa¬
tion, or about 10% of its total
population.

Although the guerrillas were
undoubtedly a thorn in the
f German Army’s side, they were
^ not decisive. According to one
| U.S. Army report published
% after the war, “Suppression of
the resistance movement
became and remained for over
two years a makeshift affair, with
the guerrillas being pursued from
one area to another, suffering
heavy casualties, but never being
destroyed.” Despite guerrilla efforts, duty in
Yugoslavia “was regarded as relatively safe
... not as pleasant, perhaps, as assignment
to occupation duty in France, Belgium or
Holland, but definitely preferable to service
in the Soviet Union or North Africa.”
Indeed, when Germany was forced out of
the Balkans it was mostly due to the loss of
its Italian ally in 1943 and by the worsening
situation on the Eastern Front against the
Soviet Union.

Germany suffered about 24,000 killed
and 12,000 missing (Tito claimed to have
killed more than 100,000) during its con¬
quest and occupation of Yugoslavia, most of
them during the retreat from the Balkans.
The German Army lost more soldiers during
its six-week campaign against France in
June 1940. The Allies had hoped that Tito’s
Partisans could stab away at the German
withdrawal, but most units managed to

Continued on page 71

German tanks stage review in streets of Belgrade, in April 1941, after
German occupation of Yugoslavian capital. Pentagon and NATO offi¬
cials considering ground troop options for Yugoslavia are studying
history of Yugoslav resistance during World War II.

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

rban rifle” or “tactical carbine.” To me they’re just political¬
ly correct terms for the most feared and hated item on the
political left’s anti-gun agenda: semiautomatic-only versions
of military assault rifles. By definition, the latter are relative¬
ly lightweight, chambered for an intermediate-size cartridge
(usually either 5.56x45mm NATO or 7.62x39mm), and equipped
with selective-fire capability. Remove this last feature and you will
most often encounter in law enforcement agencies throughout the
U.S. some variant or another of the Colt AR-15.

The fabled Thunder Ranch’s Urban Rifle course covers the
use of a rifle at pistol ranges. That usually means close-in, quick¬
ly moving targets that require rapid target acquisition. Since
April 1986 Clint Smith has taught more Urban Rifle classes than
any other. Strangely enough, prior to this time there seemed to be
little interest in this type of training. This is, coincidentally, the
date of the Miami, Florida shootout, in which two well-armed
perpetrators laid waste, before expiring, to a substantial number
of FBI agents, armed mostly with handguns. One of the bad guys

35 ■ '

(clockwise from top) Thunder Ranch
instructor Bill Jeans demonstrates
the “California” kneeling position
using the “wall” for cover, as Clint
Smith discusses this position’s
salient features. Students drop to
kneeling to clear “bolt-over-base”
stoppages. Thunder Ranch instruc¬
tor Bill McLennan (left) and Clint
Smith demonstrate weapon retention
technique. Thunder Ranch’s Urban
Rifle course covers the use of a rifle
at pistol ranges. That usually means
close in, quickly moving targets that
require rapid target acquisition.

(counterclockwise from top) Bill Jeans watches
I closely as students advance and fire at rotating

I target on White Range. Instruction at Thunder
Ranch is most often close-in and personal as
Clint Smith discusses firing and weapon
manipulation with the right hand only with an
Urban Rifle student. Thunder Ranch instructor
Bill Jeans talks Michael Emery through the roll¬
over prone position at the “wall.” Students

E ze weapon retention technique under the
ful eye of Bill McLennan.

(above) Two police officers fire on clothed, rotating targets
as they tactically withdraw, (right) SOFs Technical Editor,
Peter G, Kokalis, went through Thunder Ranch’s Urban
Rifle course armed with an Ml 6A2, equipped with an upper
receiver that features a 16.1-inch heavy barrel, and an
Aimpoint Comp M-XD red sight. Note Vortex flash hider.

served as director of Heckler & Koch’s
training services division. Together with his
wife, Heidi, he runs the Thunder Ranch
Training Facility (Dept. SOF, HCR 1, Box
53, Mountain Home, TX 78058; phone:
830-640-3138; fax: 830-640-3183; web site:
www.thunderranchinc.com) with its busy
34-course schedule and still finds time for
off-site training through International
Training Consultants, Inc., a highly regard¬
ed mobile training program.

Thunder Ranch has a guest staff of about
three dozen instructors. The five, including
Clint, who taught our Urban Rifle course
brought an impressive array of experience to
the table. Bill McLennan retired from the
San Antonio Police Department after more
than 30 years of service, the last six and a
half of which were spent as OIC of firearms
training. McLennan’s unflappable de¬
meanor, dry Texas wit and encyclopedic
knowledge of gunfighting tactics are
tremendous assets in any course he
instructs. Bill Jeans, former Operations
Manager for Gunsite and a Vietnam-era
combat Marine, spent 21 years with the
Clovis, Calif., Police Department. Ray
Coffman, who served as a grunt in the
Marine Corps in the 1970s, was active in
USMC rifle squad competition and ended
his military career in a Force Recon reserve
battalion. He was involved with site securi¬
ty at the DOE and was chief of firearms and
tactics at the Central Training Academy
(CTA). Jack Furr, former Senior Range-
master at Gunsite, spent many years as a
homicide detective in Louisiana and as an
instructor at CTA. Jack is one of the most
highly respected firearms and tactics
instructors in the country.

Thunder Ranch classes never contain
more than 20 students, as that is the number
of firing positions on each range. This pro¬
vided our class with a student-to-instructor
ratio of 4-to-1. No other recognized firearms
training facility can boast of such a low ratio
of students to instructors. Our Urban Rifle
class was composed of five police officers,
two security personnel from Mexico and 13
civilians dedicated to fighting smart if the
need arises. Students always get more than
their money’s worth at Thunder Ranch, as
there is none of the usual down-time associ¬
ated with firearms classes run in relays. You
can expect to fire about 1,200 rounds in the
Urban Rifle course. You will also need a
handgun and holster for transition drills.
However, no more than several hundred
rounds of pistol ammo are required.

Urban Rifle

was armed with a caliber .223 Ruger Mini-14.

Instructors

Thunder Ranch’s highly respected honcho, Clint Smith, is a
Marine Corps veteran with two infantry tours in Vietnam. His
experience includes seven years in law enforcement, during which
time he served as head of his department’s FTU (Firearms Training
Unit), as well as the senior counlersniper on the SWAT unit. He was
Operations Officer for Jeff Cooper’s API and both started and

Mornings of the first day at Thunder
Ranch are almost always spent in the classroom discussing the
important concepts that will be applied during the rest of the
course, in this instance on the White and Orange Ranges,
Terminator, Thunderville and Tower. Armed with Clint’s statement
that, “Most people in a fight can’t run their gear; they’re shooting
because it makes them feel good,” we march off to the White
Range after lunch to establish zero from the prone at 25 yards and
then at 50 yards, firing at bullseye targets. Subsequent to 25-yard
offhand shooting, we move to 100 yards for more prone shooting

\*^^sH8v«SwS^

*' '

(clockwise from top left) Clint
Smith discusses tactical move¬
ment with two police officers dur¬
ing a “wall” exercise. There was
one Chinese Norinco semiauto¬
matic-only AKM in the class.
Student with early Costa Mesa
Armalite AR180 demonstrates the

“rice paddy prone” position, also known as the old USMC
squatting position. Thunder Ranch instructor Ray Coffman
commences a demonstration of the tactical reload for an AR-15.
(inset, below) Firing from one of the upper level positions at
Thunderville.

on silhouette targets to end the day. As we drive to our cabin I
contemplate Clint’s final observation in the morning lecture.
“There are two questions no training facility can answer for you:
They don’t know what the threat will look like or what it’s going
to take for you to win.”

We commenced the second day with the van™'* imp.eiino
positions and then offhand from 50 yards. By the
way, there are no distance markers on any of the
ranges at Thunder Ranch, so all of the distances I
describe are approximate only. Clint says he’ll
install them when they do so in the real world as
well. At 100 yards we fired from prone, kneeling
and offhand. Then back to about 25 yards for off¬
hand shooting with right and left lateral move¬
ment and withdrawals. The difference between
“searching” and “scanning” was emphasized.

When you search the flanks for a target, the rifle
moves in constant alignment with the head and
eyes as they move to the left and right. When
scanning, the head and eyes move briefly to the
left and right while the rifle remains pointed at
the target, presumably a downed, but not neces¬
sarily out, opponent.

Another point of emphasis was the difference
between the rifle’s bore line and the line of sight,
especially on a Colt AR-15, which can be as much as 3 to 4 inch¬
es using either the iron sights on the carrying handle or an
Aimpoint Comp M-XD (Extreme Duty) mounted on an A3 flat-
top receiver’s Mil-Std-1913 rail. If this is not taken into consid¬
eration, with the consequent proper elevation in the point of aim,
a shot intended for the brain cavity will impact in the target’s
mouth. Worse yet when Bring over a barricade, you might not
“clear the muzzle” over the obstruction.

A portion of the afternoon was spent practicing malfunction
drills. Malfunctions such as those resulting from a magazine not
locked by the catch/release, or a stovepipe, are handled by the

same “tap, rack, bang” procedure used to clear out a Ml911A1
pistol. However, what the U.S. Military calls a “bolt-over-base”
stoppage — an empty case fails to extract and the bolt rides over
a loaded round cocked sideways in the receiver just above the
magazine — is unfortunately fairly common (usually because of
n Hefertive magazine or weak extractor spring) and difficult to
resolve. If possible, you should transition to
your handgun.

But that isn’t always possible and the proce¬
dure for clearing a “bolt-over-base” stoppage is
as follows: First, slap the magazine upward and
then retract the bolt. If that doesn’t solve the
problem, drop or move to cover and roll the
weapon so you can inspect the chamber in a
tactile (by touch) manner. If you determine that
you are faced with a “bolt-over-base,” retract
the bolt and activate the hold-open device.
Remove the magazine. Insert the fingers of
your support hand into the magazine-well and
clear the stoppage. Cycle the bolt group at least
twice. Insert a different loaded magazine. Cycle
the bolt again to chamber a round. Continue to
“shoot what’s available, as long as it’s available
or until something else becomes available.”
Why? Because as Clint correctly says, “When
you turn and run, then the killing really begins. Don’t turn and
run, you’re going to die anyway.” We finished the day firing at
high-speed turning targets.

During any course at Thunder Ranch, they invariably turn up
the pace on Wednesday. By that time most of the students are
both physically and mentally in better condition than they were
on Monday morning. Starting again at the White Range, we
began the day firing standing-to-kneeling drills after movement.
This was followed by standing-to-prone after movement and
finally standing-to-kneeling- (with two shots to the body) to-
prone (one shot to the head). These exercises were all conducted

at about 25 yards, as were the “battlefield
pick up” drills we practiced, which involved
running to your grounded weapon and get¬
ting it into action as quickly as possible.

Up Against The Wall

All of this was a mere prelude to the
dreaded “wall” exercise. Starting with your
partner about 5 yards in back of a stepped
barricade, each one in turn moves rapidly in
a crouched position to the wall to fire con¬
secutively from a crouched standing, kneel¬
ing, sitting, prone and roll-over prone posi¬
tion. Each shooter alternates between every
position, withdrawing each time to the start¬
ing point as he is talked back by his partner.
Throughout the rest of the week, when we
assembled at White Range to await rotation
to one of the simulators, we practiced on the
wall. It was not my favorite exercise.
However, this drill not only hones shooting
skills, but provides emphasis on teamwork.
Furthermore, you will do in fight what you
do in training and programming is largely a
function of repetitions.

Weapon retention is an all-too-often
neglected topic. With the bolt out of the rifle

and red surveyor’s flagging through .--

the magazine well and ejection port, |
we practiced retaining the rifle by
use of a circular motion as our part- |
ners grabbed and held the muzzles. H
Everything, especially including
drills such as this, is performed with
great emphasis on safety. Clint
believes that “Injuries defeat the
intent of training.”

Clint Smith correctly main¬
tains that, “There’s a remarkable
difference between a national
championship and a gunfight.”

So, subsequent to this, we

reassembled the rifles and moved -

to the firing line for a reality check Vortex
with some “shake ’n’ bake” drills. ever
With the partner holding the front
end of the sling and the shooter’s belt, both
move rearward together. At the command
“release,” the partner releases the front end
of the sling while the operator shoots a Plan
C. At Thunder Ranch shooting a “Plan A”
means firing at the torso, or the body’s
energy source, the number of shots deter¬
mined by the threat. Firing a “Plan B” indi¬
cates a shot to the head — the body’s com¬
puter, while a “Plan C” signifies the first
two zones plus shooting at the pelvis,
which should affect your opponent’s mobil¬
ity. Before the lunch break we fired Plan C
sequences offhand from about 25 yards and
kneeling at 50 yards, after right, left or
withdrawal movement.

After lunch we assembled at the
Terminator for a tactics lecture by Clint.
While the primary rule remains “Always
Win, Always Cheat,” the tactical movement
concept of “slicing the pie” is all-important
in successfully clearing a building complex
and that is, of course, an adjunct of proper¬
ly using cover and concealment.

A salient feature of instruction at
Thunder Ranch is the amount of individual

attention provided to the students. During
my initial dry run through the Terminator,
Jack Furr pointed out that I was holding my
right arm in the normal offhand position -
parallel to the ground. This projects the arm
away from the body and provides an oppo¬
nent with a clear target indicator as you
carefully pie and enter a room. This type of
instructor observation is training input at its
highest level of constructive criticism.

Back on the White Range at the “wall”
and from the kneeling position, we fired
first with the right hand only and the left
hand completely disabled. This included
inserting a loaded magazine into the maga¬
zine well, retracting the bolt, firing twice,
releasing and dropping the magazine and
clearing the rifle. This was repeated with the
left hand.

Wednesday ended with a “downed offi¬
cer drill.” A bag or object representing a
downed officer is placed 15 yards down-
range from the approximated 50-yard line.
Two men move down range, one providing
suppressive fire, the other covering only.
Upon arrival at the fallen officer, the man
providing suppressive fire calls “out”

Vortex flash hider — the best and most effective flash suppressor
ever fielded, bar none.

(“You’ll be in the fight until you’re out of
ammo,” says Thunder Ranch’s boss), slings
his rifle, picks up the wounded officer and
begins to withdraw to the cover provided by
the wall. The other man provides suppres¬
sive fire for the withdrawal to cover.

Welcome To Thunderville

Day 4 started, as usual, at White Range
for series of offhand, kneeling and prone
drills firing at rotating camouflage targets
from about 50 and then 25 yards. After fir¬
ing head shots at 5 yards, some of us went
to Thunderville.

Thunderville is an elaborate, day or
night, in-depth facade over 200-feet in
length representing a two-sided street set¬
ting. It’s used in all of the rifle programs
that present dynamic scenarios. With over
60 target options, as well as movers,
hostages, runners and wobblers, Thun¬
derville features computer-controlled light¬
ing, doors, movement, timing and hit docu¬
mentation. This simulator has been
designed to test decision-making and target
identification under maximum stress.

Thursday evening found us back on
White Range for the night shoot. Using
ambient light for as long as it lasted, a flash¬
light, a law enforcement flashing light bar
and also in my case and Chris^Mayer’s night
vision equipment, we practiced malfunction
drills, firing in conjunction with movement
and from behind barricades. I ended the
evening with a successful run through
Thunderville using a Litton M983 third-
generation night vision pocket scope
mounted on a GG&G Integrated Rail
System, directly in back of an Aimpoint
Comp M-XD.

Friday, the last day of the course, is a
frenzied blur in my mind. First, to White
Range for our beloved wall drills, then off
to Orange Range for work on chargers.
Back to White Range for the wall again and
then over to the Terminator, where I picked
up two valuable lessons, albeit somewhat
painful to my ego.

In my first run through the Terminator,
Jack Furr slipped an empty case in the
middle of my magazine frill of frangible
ammunition. After successfully engaging
several targets, I sliced the pie around a

- w comer to find a hostage situation

1 requiring a head shot. Both the
* hostage and I went down because
? I failed to check the rifle, either
® visually or in a tactile manner,
before rounding the comer. I’ll
never do that again.

In my second run, Bill
McClennan set up a scenario
mjt, where tunnel vision on a target
SP down a long hallway resulted in
my failure to check a room con-
t taining a bad guy. Training in a

simulator, such as the Terminator,
is not supposed to be a demonstra-

- tion of how great you are, it’s sup-

ressor posed to be a valuable learning
experience.

In the afternoon, we climbed
the outside ladder on the Tower to the sec¬
ond floor to pick up a magazine of frangible
ammo. A bomb scenario was projected. You
had two minutes to work your way rapidly
down the inside stairs of the Tower before
the bomb detonated. A suspected terrorist
was supposedly remaining in the building in
a possible hostage situation. Afterward,
leaving no time to mull this over, we then
moved quickly to Thunderville.

Moving behind a building facade as fast
as possible, up and down ramps, stairs and
poles and shooting from windows and floor-
level openings at targets that remain
exposed for no more than 2.5 seconds, is
very much a “deep breathing” experience.
Engagement distances at Thunderville are,
on the average, about 25 to 35 yards. Urban
Rifle ended where it began, on White Range
with wall drills and a final brass call.

Clint Smith says, “If you want to scare
’em, put on an ugly mask. Only hits help.”
Thunder Ranch’s superb Urban Rifle
Course is designed to maximize a stu¬
dent’s hit probability with the Colt AR-15
and other rifles of this type. But, it

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

requires a full physical and mental effort
on the part of all those who participate.

Equipment

Clint says, “If I’m going to fight. I'm
going to fight with the biggest gun I can get
my hands on.” For the 20 students in the
Urban Rifle class that Soldier Of Fortune
staff photographer Chris Mayer and I
attended, that meant 18 ColtM16A2/AR-15
variants, one early Armalite AR180, made
in Costa Mesa, Calif., and one Norinco
semiautomatic-only AKM.

My M16A2, equipped with an upper
receiver (from the Colt law enforcement AR-
15A3 Tactical Carbine, #AR6721) that fea¬
tures a 16.1-inch heavy barrel (chrome-lined
with 1:9-inch twist) and removable carrying
handle, was the only selective-fire rifle in the
class. I fired two-round bursts only twice, at
very close ranges. “Proximity deletes skill.”
In the law enforcement arena you must
account for every round you send down
range. Second and third rounds in burst-fire
will usually impact high and to the right. This
is not usually a desirable feature for most law
enforcement or civilian defense applications.

Two of the AR-15s were “post-ban” rifles
and had no muzzle devices. The flash signa¬
ture from these rifles is horrendous. In my
opinion, this variant is useless. Five of the
Colt rifles were equipped with Vortex flash
suppressors, both the older straight-prong
and the newer helical type. The Vortex flash
hider is made by Smith Arms International
(Dept. SOF, 1701 West 10th Street, #14,
Tempe, AZ 85281; phone: 602-964-1818). It
is, quite simply, the best flash hider ever
fielded. With even the shortest barrels, the
Vortex almost completely eliminates the
flash signature, regardless of the propellant.

Clint says, “A rifle without a sling is like
a handgun without a holster.” I personally
feel that the so-called Giles Sling is the best
available. Designed by Giles Stock, a
retired sergeant and SWAT team armorer for
the Phoenix PD, it is manufactured by, and
available from, The Wilderness (Dept. SOF,
5130 N. 19th Ave., Suite 7, Phoenix, AZ
85015; phone: 602-242-4945 or 800-775-
5650; fax: 602-242-8260).

Fabricated from heavy, 1.25-inch, black
nylon webbing with 1.25-inch Delrin buck¬
les, the sling is stitched with heavy poly¬
ester thread, which is more sun-resistant
than nylon thread. Available for the Steyr
AUG, Colt AR-15 series, Ruger Mini-14
and the Benelli and Remington Model 11-
87 and 870 shotguns, the Giles sling is also
custom-made for other shoulder-mounted
weapons which must be fitted in the shop.

It can be used as a carry, shooting or
hands-free sling (in the manner of the H&K
combat carrying sling). Most important, the
Giles sling permits the operator to correctly
and safely transition to his service sidearm
in a combat environment. The AR-15 model
costs $49.95.

There was an interesting assortment of
optical sighting equipment in this class.
Two rifles were fitted with Trijicon reflex
sights and one with the well-known Trijicon

ACOG scope. There were three Aimpoint
red dot sights. One was the Comp M model
and it does not provide a red dot of suffi¬
cient intensity for use in bright sunlight. The
U.S. Army has adopted Aimpoint Comp M-
XD electronic reflex sights for the
M16A2E4 rifle and M4 carbine series.
Known as the M68, This sight is now the
primary aiming systems for these firearms.
Both feature a 3 MOA (3 inches at 100
yards) dot. The optics used in the Comp M
and M-XD have band pass reflection coat¬
ing for compatibility with night-vision
equipment. The Aimpoint Comp M-XD,
which I used through the last three days of
Thunder Ranch’s Urban Rifle course, has a
red dot of sufficient intensity for even the

Since 1986, Clint Smith has taught more
Urban Rifle classes than any other type. Here
is holds a student’s Colt AR-15 which is
equipped with a Trijicon reflex sight to
demonstrate a point.

brightest sunlight. There’s no doubt that the
Aimpoint Comp M-XD provides for much
faster target acquisition than iron sights.
However, these units are powered by batter¬
ies and batteries will eventually fail, usual¬
ly at a most inappropriate moment.

Ammunition

Two different intermediate-size assault
rifle cartridges were used by the students in
our Urban rifle class: 5.56x45mm NATO
(.223 Remington) and 7.62x39mm. They
differ markedly in wound ballistics perfor¬
mance. A great deal of misinformation has
been published about the reasons for the
both the Vietnam-era 55-grain M193 and
newer M855 62-grain 5.56x45mm projec¬
tiles effectiveness. It was determined at the
U.S. Army’s Wound Ballistics Lab that the
large permanent cavity produced by these
bullets is primarily a consequence of bullet
fragmentation.

As long as these FMJ bullets travel
point forward their wound track remains
small and there is little tissue damage.
However, after from 2 to 6 inches of pene¬
tration, the projectiles will yaw to 90
degrees, flatten and break apart at the can¬
nelure (crimping groove). The bullet point
remains as a flattened triangular section,
retaining about 60% of the original bullet
weight and penetrating about 13 inches in
soft tissue. That portion to the rear of the
cannelure breaks into numerous fragments

that penetrate up to 3 inches radially away
from the main wound track.

These multiple fragments perforate
and weaken tissue. Tissue between two
perforations is often completely detached
when subsequently subjected to the sud¬
den stretch of temporary cavitation.
Weakened tissue may be split by stretch
that would otherwise be absorbed by the
tissue’s elasticity.

There is a direct correlation between the
bullet’s velocity and the fragmentation pat¬
tern. At a range of 100 yards, these bullets
generally break into two large fragments.
At ranges more than 200 yards, Ml93/
M855 bullets flatten somewhat and only a
few small fragments squeeze out the base.
If one of these bullets pass through an arm
or leg without striking bone and before it
yaws and fragments, the damage will be
minimal. In my opinion, the 5.56x45mm
NATO cartridge is most effective at ranges
under 100 yards.

Both Chris Mayer and I used 68-grain,
Jacketed Hollow Point (JHP), moly-coated
ammunition provided by Black Hills
Ammunition (Dept. SOF, P.O. Box 3090,
Rapid City, SD 57709-3090; phone: 605-
348-5150; fax: 605-348-9827 — call for
information about purchasing direct at
retail if there is no Black Hills distributor
near you). Heavier bullets provide greater
accuracy potential in the faster twist
5.56x45mm barrels. Moly-coating pro¬
duces a protective surface in the barrel with
a number of important benefits. Moly-coat-
ed bullets will reduce both chamber pres¬
sure and muzzle velocity because of the
reduction in the coefficient of friction.
When fired at identical velocities, moly-
coated bullets will provide flatter trajecto¬
ries at long range than untreated bullets.
Accuracy is also significantly enhanced.
And, especially important, is the incredible
almost twofold increase in barrel life.

In its boattail configuration, the
7.62x39mm bullet travels point-forward
about 10 inches in soft tissue before sig¬
nificant yaw occurs. At that point the bul¬
let will yaw to less than 90 degrees, then
come back down to a point-forward posi¬
tion, and, finally, yaw 180 degrees and end
is travel in a base forward position. Bi-
lobed yaw cycles of this type are com¬
monly observed with pointed non-deform¬
ing bullets. Total penetration in living tis¬
sue is almost 29 inches. Abdominal shots
usually exhibit no greater tissue disruption
than that produced by a .38 Special
revolver bullet since, after 10 inches of
travel without yawing, the bullet has gen¬
erally passed through the abdominal cavi¬
ty. Of course, this round is capable of
inflicting such damage at far greater
ranges than a handgun. Flat-based bullets
in this caliber are considerably more
effective. They will commence their yaw
cycle after only 3 to 4 inches of penetra¬
tion. This will cause more damage to the
abdomen, liver, spleen or pancreas
because the bullet passes through these
organs at a larger yaw angle. ^

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

Gun Control Doesn't Work

Proven Solutions to Ending School Shootings

PHOTOS COURTESY PATRICK KRAMER / LONGMONT TIMES-CALL

r his exclusive interview with
Dr. David Th. Schiller is
repinted with the kind permis¬
sion of Mr. Aaron Zellman,
Founder and Executive
Director of Jews For The
Preservation of Firearms Ownership, copy¬
right © by Jews For The Preservation of
Firearms Ownership (JPFO, P.O. Box
270143, Dept. SOF, Hartford, WI 53047;
Tel.: 414.673.9745; Fax: 414.673.9746). It
puts to rest the ongoing debate of how to
deal with the ever increasing violence and
bloodshed in America's schools, by showing
proven solutions to the problem. Rest
assured the answer is not in more gun con¬
trol, as the gun prohibitionists would want to
brainwash America into believing. In fact,
the problem is gun control.

JPFO: Tell us about your background,
and your involvement with firearms, and the

right to keep and bear arms.

Schiller: The name is Dr. David
Schiller, currently residing in the little
town of Nassau, 70 km northwest of
Frankfurt [Germany], I work as editor-in-
chief of V1S1ER , a 168-pages-strong gener¬
al-interest gun magazine, which I started
11 years ago in Stuttgart and which has
now grown to be the most influential and
best-selling gun magazine in all of Europe.
Of course with a gun magazine published
in Germany, politics are at the forefront of
our editorial work, and we have an eye
toward the past. NRA’s Steve Halbrook has
been just over here, and I was glad to help
him with his research on Jewish resistance
during WW II.

I was bom in [West] Berlin in ’52,
moved to Israel in ’72 and served in the
Israel Defense Force’s Airborne, which
means I am a veteran of the ’73 war, the
Lebanese war, and a number of border raids

and actions in the occupied territories.
Wounded in 1973 on Suez Canal, I later
studied political science at West Berlin’s
Free University and mastered with a thesis
on the origins of the Civil War in Lebanon
and a Ph.D. in ’82 with a work on the
Palestinians’ “love affair” with terrorism
and paramilitary activity. When I returned
to Germany in ’74-’75 for studies I was
called upon by the Berlin police department
to consult and teach their SWAT team,
which just came into being after the Munich
massacre during the Munich Olympics.
Over the years this extended into a whole
series of work obligations with various
police departments in Germany and other

A crowd estimated at a few thousand fills west
side of Capitol lawn in Denver, Colorado on
Saturday, 1 May 1999, during anti-gun demon¬
stration. Many later walked to Adam’s Mark
Hotel to protest NRA’s annual meeting.

ta Qah irs tASiEfi

FssAO^ To Earn
flfTsSLTHAH

A Benu A 1 i

T»iJE Oats Irs Easisr
is. A &hq To Eupn
3»j Or TttSl T«A*
A Bkiil Of Aspir.il

Lewis Geyer /Longmont Times-Call

places in the world. Due to my work in the
Israel Defense Force (IDF), as a drill
instructor and weapons specialist, and
through my academic interest, I had some¬
thing to teach to these people. I also worked
some years for the terrorism research
department of Santa Monica’s RAND
Corporation, and have continued my acade¬
mic pursuits.

Over the years I published a number of
books on shooting, police, terrorism, mili¬
tary history etc., most of these under the
pseudonym of “Jan Boger.” You probably
might find a photographic journal of mine
in English on the IDF, called “To
Live in the Fire ..., ” published in
1977 by the John Olson
Publishing Co., in New Jersey.

As you can see, I experienced
violence and gun control from
both ends of the barrel, one might
say. And, of course, I grew up to
be a strong believer in the person¬
al right to self-defense, especially
as I spent my childhood in the
Berlin equivalent of the Bronx.

JPFO: What kind of advice
could you give the U.S.A . to com¬
bat the recent school massacres that seem¬
ingly have become quite common upon our
soil?

Schiller: Now for Jonesboro and the
U.S. gun control laws in regard to schools:
Way back in 1973, I lived in a Kibbutz in
Northern Israel, called Ramat Yochanan.
During Passover week in ’74 we in Galilee
experienced the first of a number of specif¬
ic PLO attacks targeting specifically
schools and children, houses, kindergartens,
school buses and the like. It started with an
infiltration in Quiriat Schmoneh on the
Passover weekend, where the perpetrators
found the school empty and locked (of
course, during the holidays!) and took over
a nearby residential building, shooting peo¬
ple and in the end blowing themselves up.

A few weeks later the worst of this series
of incidents took place in Maalot on May
15^. Three PLO gunmen, after making
their way through the border fence, first
shot up a van-load full of workers returning
from a tobacco factory (incidentally, these
people happened to be Galilee Arabs, not
Jews), then they entered the school com¬
pound of Maalot. First they murdered the
housekeeper, his wife and one of their kids,
then they took a whole group of nearly 100
kids and their teachers hostage. These were
staying overnight at the school, as they were
on a hiking trip. In the end, the deadline ran
out, and the army’s special unit assaulted
the building. During the rescue attempt, the
gunmen blew their explosive charges and
sprayed the kids with machine-gun fire.
Twenty-five people died, 66 wounded.

After this a controversial debate erupt¬
ed in Israel in regards to guns, self-defense
etc. We heard, of course, the same dumb
arguments by some good people, you
always hear on these occasions like. “We
do not live in the Wild West here!”
Or,“Guns don’t solve problems!” or simi¬

lar silly things.

JPFO: Were there any gun laws in Israel
in those days?

Schiller: Now, one has to remember,
that Israel still had — and has — most of
the old and very strict gun laws dating back
to the days of the British Mandatory (1918-
1948) on the books, and we in the promised
land have, meanwhile, grown our share of
idiotic bureaucrats and dumb politicians,
too. But with the help of some smart peo¬
ple, not the least the then-Commander-in-
Chief, Northern Command Paratroop
General Raful Eytan, all the reservists on

(top) A mother is reunited with her son after-
large group of Columbine High School stu¬
dents were released after being freed from the
school by police, Tuesday, 20 April 1999, in
Littleton, Colorado. Students were put on
busses and brought to local elementary
school to be reunited with family members
who were told to meet at the school.

the settlements were issued their personal
weapons, and whoever had a clean track
record could get a concealed weapons per¬
mit. I, for instance, had, and still have one.

JPFO: What happened then?

Schiller: Teachers and kindergarten
nurses now started to carry guns; schools
were protected by parents (and often grand¬
pas) guarding them in voluntary shifts. No
school group went on a hike or trip without
armed guards. The Police involved the citi¬
zens in a voluntary civil guard project
“Mishmar Esrachi,” which even had its own
sniper teams. The Army’s Youth Group pro¬
gram, “Gadna,” trained 15- and 16-year-old
kids in gun safety and guard procedures and
the older high school boys got involved
with the Mishmar Esrachi. During one
noted incident, the “Herzliyah Bus
Massacre” (March ’78, hijacking of a bus;
37 dead, 76 wounded), these youngsters
were involved in the overall security mea¬
sures in which the whole area between

North Tel Aviv and the resort town of
Herziyiah was blocked off, manning road¬
blocks with the police, guarding schools
kindergartens etc.

No problems with gun safety there, as
most kids in Israel grow up used to seeing
guns on the street (in the hands of army per¬
sonnel; on leave every soldier takes his/her
gun home when on leave!). When the mes¬
sage got around to the PLO groups and a
couple infiltration attempts failed, the
attacks against schools ceased. Too much of
a risk here: Terrorists and other evildoers
don’t like risks.

But what does all that teach us?
Schools/kindergartens make for very
attractive targets for the deranged gunman,
as well as for the profit-oriented hostage
gangsters or terrorist group, because:
Everybody sane will cave in to the
demands of the evildoers. Even somebody
as hard-nosed as Golda Meir, may she rest
in peace, said during the Maalot incident,
that one does not make politics on the
backs of one’s children. Nobody wants to
play the principles-game when kids are
involved. Kidnapping has thus often
resulted in the paying of ransom demands.

If you crave media attention, as for
instance the PLO did in the 70s, nothing
will catch the headlines better than an attack
on a school-full of kids.

Now that is the underlying “reason”
behind each and every incident that
involved killing sprees in schools from
Maalot to Dunblane to Jonesboro. Only
recently the French had a hostage/barricade
incident in a kindergarten: The guy wanted
money, and the French authorities solved
that problem very neatly with a stealth-type
approach by one of their special teams and
a .357 bullet in the head of the perpetrator,
when he refused to surrender. No follow-up
imitations occurred in France.

JPFO: Were there any similar incidents
in Germany?

Schiller: Germany has some of the
strictest gun laws this side of Britain and
Japan and, needless to say, they are a con¬
tinuation of the Nazi gun laws, even using
the same wording. Still, we have a multi¬
tude of illegal guns on the streets.
Currently, the police estimate that there are
10 million legal, licensed guns and 20 mil¬
lion illegal — in a total population of less
than 80 million people! And we had our
school massacres, too: In the early 60s, one
incident took place in Cologne involving a
deranged person who, not having access to
guns, built himself a flamethrower. In
another incident a few years ago, in the
vicinity of Frankfurt, another crazy individ¬
ual shot his way through a school with two
handguns, and later committed suicide.

Also, prior to the Lockerbie plane bomb¬
ing (which was only one item in a whole
spree of planned and coordinated terror
attacks most luckily foiled by the authori¬
ties), German security services detected in
September ’88 that a Palestinian splinter

Continued on page 74

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

IWenty Things
To Do Before
The Lights
Go Out

by Pratt N. Whitney

P aranoia aside (and aside is the best
place to put paranoia if you want to
get anything done), all reasonable
indicators point to a storm at the end
of the year due to the Y2K impact on com¬
puters, and computers’ impact on modem
life. But like the winter, Noreasters that can
either give us a lovely Christmas or slam us
to the ground depending on which way the
wind blows, no one knows for sure just
what the real impact will be on nations as
nations, and on us as individuals. But the
good news is, this time around we know
when the storm will hit us and we have time
to prepare .

Here in the Northeast, people have a tra¬
dition of self-reliance and of pulling togeth¬
er through tough times. The sensibly chal¬
lenged among us notwithstanding, North
Americans have always been a people of
great common sense. The right attitude and
common sense, coupled with preparation,
has always gotten us through any hard
times, and it will again. And, in retrospect,
the “hard times” usually have only been as
hard as we let them be.

Preparing for the various possible prob¬
lems as the year 2000 rolls around is about
90% simply taking the prudent steps you
should even if there were no Y2K apparition
threatening us from the horizon. We have
compiled our favorite list of 20 areas to
attend to, and they are below in the order of
their importance to us. Initial problems are
likely to be loss of infrastructure: utilities,
transportation, police/fire service, followed
by bolluxed distribution channels for goods
such as petrol and food. So, prepare for

shortages and high prices by buying ahead
when supplies and prices are normal. If
there are subsequent financial ramifications,
the principles are very simple: You will
keep what you own, lose what you owe.
Plan accordingly.

Every person’s situation is different as to
what they have that is vulnerable, and their
ability to take steps to protect it: Old folks
needn’t lay in a supply of baby formula, and
young families don’t need to stock up on
Geritol and Viagra. Our family didn’t have
to worry about rearranging our stock portfo¬
lio, as we don’t have one. Our neighbors
don’t worry about fuel for their generator, as
they have their own mini-hydro plant.

The specifics of one man’s plan, however,
readily translate to generalities that will serve
as a checklist for most. A great deal of prepar¬
ing for any event consists of putting together
material goods: start now putting together
what you reasonably think you will need,
before there are shortages and while prices are
normal, and while you have time to shop for
the best deal. The rest of preparation is plan¬
ning, studying and doing — all activities most
efficiently done at a methodical pace.

Here are what we think are 20 good
ideas: We hope you will find some useful to
your needs.

1: Get several yellow legal pads and
stenographer’s note pads, a good supply of
#2 lead pencils and a handful of ballpoint
pens. We find them very useful in lieu of
brains for keeping track of what needs to be
done. Checklists are great.

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

PREPARING- FOR

folks put by food for the whole winter. If
you garden, make this year’s garden heavy
on easily kept veggies such as winter
squash, or carrots/onions/garlic/turnips/
beets and similar root crops that can be
mulched in and harvested as needed. Small
food driers are cheap, and dried food will
easily last through the winter. If you grow
no food, lay in a supply of what you usually
like that is in a form that will keep. If you
stock up on frozen food, be sure you can
keep it frozen. For very little money you can
lay in rice, peas, beans and etc. for the whole
winter. Freeze-dried, nitrogen packed “sur¬
vival” foods have a shelf life of decades, and

2: Put away enough cash to cover three months’ mortgage, util¬
ity and other predetermined bills. Hide it where it will be safe from
thieves, fire. etc. Remember, thieves first look in the bedroom, then
the icebox, then your bookshelf. You can do better. Be creative.

5: Lay in a stock of any prescription medi¬
cines you regularly take, and sidle up to a
friendly medical professional and get a supply
of broad-spectrum antibiotics and instructions
in their use. Get the full spectrum of patent
medicines from aspirin to Void cream, denture
glue to whatever cosmetics you feel you need.
Stock up on all the vitamins you usually take.
Make sure you have a good “home medical adviser” book or a copy
of the Merck Manual or The Physician’s Desk Reference.

A cheap safe is a waste of
money, and the best safe is
one a yeg never sees. Top-
quality hidden safes such as
these from Rolland Safe are
the best bet for your Y2K
money or trade goods, irre¬
placeable papers, or crucial
medicines.

if you have the money to invest they are
worth considering. If you’re traveling on the
cheap into the next millennium, you can
make it on dry dog food if that’s all you can
afford. And of course if you have fur-bear¬
ing family members, lay in food for them
since if they are kept healthy you can always,
in dire straights, wok your dog.

An adequate supply of food, in a variety
of types and storage, is next on your list.
Buy it or put it up yourself, but you must
have food.

3: Store enough water for drinking for 3 months. Water for
washing is secondary, and can be recycled for flushing. Y2K will
be upon us in winter, and if that means snow where you will be, you
can melt snow for wash water. Non-potable or uncertain water can
be filtered and decontaminated by chemical (bleach, iodine tabs
etc.) or boiling. Water stores best in clean bleach jugs, large plastic
pop bottles second, plastic drums are another good option.

4: Put by food for at least 3 months. Once upon a time most

Whether you do herbs, aspirin or prescription drugs, get a supply
ahead.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

wateFtanks.com watertanks.com

SOF Staff

6: Get a good book on first-aid and emergency medicine, and all
the attendant supplies needed as outlined in the book. We are work¬
ing on the assumption you will need to do for yourself and that at
least for a time medical supplies might be unavailable. On the sub¬
ject of books, now is the time to study up. Myriad books are avail¬
able on all aspects of preparedness. Examine before you buy; buy
the ones that operate within a zone of reasonableness and offer real-
world suggestions. If the book says you have to buy this book or the
black helicopters will get you, pass on to the next book.

Study up in advance: preparedness skills, medical knowledge will
always stand you in good stead.

9: Adjunct to having shelter is
keeping it lit and warm. Light is
cheap and easy: candles, Coleman-
type lanterns, kerosene lanterns,
flashlights and lots of batteries. If you
live in detached housing of some
sort, as in house, consider a genera¬
tor to keep freezers frozen and to
keep useful any power tools you
might need. And if you get a gener¬
ator, remember spares like fuel fil¬
ters, oil, an extra starter rope and
spark plug. If any in your family are
on medical appliances, determine
what sort of backup power they
need and get and test it.

Old technology via kerosene,
new technology via rechargeable
emergency lights; whichever
your choice from candles to
Coleman lanterns, you will need
your own light.

IMPORTANT: Before you attempt to hook any generator to your
house wiring (as opposed to running a freezer via cord from the
generator) you have to isolate your house from the power grid, or
you’ll send your electricity out into the grid. It’s simple to do, but
get an electrician to show you how to do it, or have him install a
switch to do it. If you have the misfortune of living in an apartment,
get up with the building super and explore getting a generator suit¬
able to keeping the building going.

7: Having done this, at least you can now eat and drink and you
know what happens next: Lay in a supply of toilet paper, friends.
And even if you have stored, or can access, enough water for flush¬
ing and sanitary purposes this supply can be interrupted, and sew¬
erage systems can go down: Therefore, some sort of chamber pot
can be helpful. It doesn’t have to be fancy (a 5-gallon plastic buck¬
et and a garbage-bag liner will do), but indoor plumbing even of the
outdoor technology would be nice when necessary — remember
this will be in January. And while you’re at it, get some lime to dust
the deposits in the bucket as you will have to take the lid off to use
it and things can get intense. OK, so it gets intense — anything
beats diapers. Just keep it in your brother-in-law’s room.

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

8: After food, water and medicine,
comes shelter. Assuming you
already live in a house,
put together any mate¬
rials you reasonably
might expect to need to
keep it together and func¬
tioning: the usual construc¬
tion and repair materials and
tools you probably already
have, plus spares, and some con¬
tingency supplies such as tarps,
heavy plastic sheeting, tar-paper
and tar — and lots and lots of duct
tape. As Red Greene notes, it is the
handyman’s secret weapon.

10: Heat will be a consideration to
more than half the continent next
January. Bear in mind that most central
heating systems (whether coal, oil or
gas) will not function without electrical
power for the blowers and controls.

You can probably bundle up and survive
with no problem except losing the gerani
urns on the kitchen windowsill, but freez¬
ing pipes are a disaster when they break
and then thaw. Learn how to shut off and
then drain the pipes in your house.
Houses with wood as a primary or
alternate heating source are in good shape
as long as you maintain a supply of wood.
Kerosene room heaters can be a lifesaver
— and they can be a killer if you forget
that they bum up the oxygen you also
need, so stay ventilated. If you get
one or more of these units, lay in
plenty of kerosene (it has a good
shelf life) and learn how to use
them beforehand.

Adjunct to heat for comfort is
heat to cook. A Coleman-type stove is
best, although you might
make do on the back
porch with a
gas-fired BBQ grill.

Heat to cook, heat for
warmth: Wood stoves are
hard to beat for providing
both, butane or liquid-fuel units
are a good option for cooking.

Photos: Harbor Freight Tools

Harbor Freight Tools

15: Handling the utilities is simple enough: Learn where every
shut-off is and make sure you can shut it off (note that it may take a
special wrench to shut off the water or gas, and you should get one
in advance). As noted above if the house freezes, you don’t want
your pipes to freeze, and you’ll need to shut off the water and drain
the pipes. If you live in an apartment, get plastic sheets or tarps to
cover your furniture because if the upstairs neighbor’s pipe freeze
then thaw, it can bring the gypsum-board ceiling down on your fur¬
niture. If gas service is erratic, you may not want to leave the gas on
continually, but turn it on when you need to use it. If the electricity
goes out, or browns out, you may want to isolate yourself from the
system: Low voltage in a brown-out can ruin electrical motors and
devices, and high-voltage surges can do likewise, but instantly.
Another option during a brown-out is to use only the electric lights
or heating elements, but nothing with a motor.

16: Seek out people who need help, or community programs that
might need volunteers. Every neighborhood, or family, will have

PREPARING FOR

Wood cook-stoves
have worked for hun¬
dreds of years, and
they still do just fine
— as does an iron pot
hanging in the fire¬
place. You can boil a
can of water for a
bowl of instant soup
over a kerosene
lamp. You have many
options if you plan ahead. Whatever you choose, be sure you have
fuel on hand for it. The other side of the cooking coin is refrigera¬
tion, which can be addressed in many parts of the country that time
of year by a simple animal-proof outside storage box. Also, an open
5-gallon bucket with packed snow and a little salt on it will turn a
fridge into an icebox, and as long as you
don’t stand staring at the open door, it
will keep food cold.

11: Now that your home is dry, warm,
lit and cooking you should keep it secure.

Probably the best way is to keep a low
profile — having the only visible lights
in your block and a noisy generator is not
keeping a low profile. Get a roll of black
plastic and enough duct tape to black-out
windows in lit rooms. Know who you
wish to invite, and do not appear inviting
to others. My personal preference is to
stockpile more beans and less “hard rice”
and to be able to share rather than fight to
defend what some starving soul needs,
but this is a philosophical consideration
every man will have to decide for him¬
self. Suffice it to say, you do not owe
anyone else your life. Small-caliber arms
and pepper sprays are for deterrence; for
defense of life and limb you will need the
best of whatever your conscience and the
local arbiters of safety allow. And lots of
ammo, which can be a very good currency for barter as long as you
stick to common calibers.

Rational predators — as opposed to crazy people and druggies —
will seek out weak and juicy targets; do not appear weak or juicy and
they will target somebody else.

Manco Products, Inc.

12: Speaking of somebody else, now is the time to make some
friends. If you do not know your neighbors, quit being a stranger.
Build a working relationship with the worthwhile folks in your vicin¬
ity. Get to know them and how you can help each other in any sce¬
nario that Y2K problems might bring. Two heads are better than one;
it’s always good to have someone to watch your back; one hand
washes the other; many hands make light work, and all the other
cliches of your choice. Saskatchewan bamraisings were community
affairs, as are volunteer fire departments: Folks of good intent work¬
ing together can do just about anything from taking care of their own
to handling worse-case scenarios of marauders coming into your
neighborhood. And as you get to know those that you can work with
for a mutuality of benefit, you’ll also get to know which people you
might want to keep an eye on if things turn sour.

13: Know how to contact neighbors via phone, CB or hollering
across the back fence. Armed forces surplus field phones or cheap
kids’ battery-operated phones have a surprising range if you can
string wire to the neighbors, as in a situation where there are old folk
or shut-ins in your neighborhood that you need to keep track of.
Expect CB bands to be busy, but a good CB radio can be invaluable.
Even a bosun’s megaphone can extend voice range to a block or

When fuel is scarce
and highways are in
a knot, a fuel-effi¬
cient, go-anywhere
motorbike like this
Honda XR65GDL, or
small ATV, might
still get you
through.

14: Transportation is a consideration in a scenario where traffic
controls have quit and fuel pumps don’t work. The obvious first steps
are to lay in a supply of motor fuel, and make sure your wheels are in
good mechanical condition. For reasons of fire safety, several 5-gal-
lon cans in different locations are better than a 55-gallon drum in your

garage. Depending
on your situation, a
bicycle or motorcy¬
cle may be worth its
weight in gold for
transportation as they
can get through or
around traffic jams,
and use very little
precious fuel. If you
have a regular place
to be at a regular
time, scope out in
advance the route
that has the least
potential problems
(large intersections,
choke points, etc.).
Public transportation
might go down, so
plan to party at home
that New Year’s Eve.
We personally do not
plan any air travel
that night.

more if you don’t mind eavesdroppers.
Get a battery-operated radio and telf
and plenty of batteries, so you can
keep up with the news. A small
crystal radio, or one of those
tiny solar-powered radios, is
a cheap addition to your commo
closet and they run forever indepen¬
dent of any power source.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

Skylar Group, Inc.

members who will need help. Some because they are infirm, or
have special needs, others because they are too broke to prepare, or
some that are too dumb to get it together. Help make sure they are
taken care of, in that order.

Police auxiliaries may need additional people to direct traffic,
volunteer groups who take chow to the elderly might use a hand, and
hospital auxiliaries or similar help-your-neighbor programs are all
the sort of community efforts that may be able to use your particular
talent. If you already belong, for example, to a police or fire organi¬
zation or to some sort of military reserve, then make sure your fam¬
ily is prepared when you are called to duty. A tip from your local
chowhound: If you anticipate going out-of-pocket on such missions,
lay in a bigger-ffian-you-think-you’11-need supply of pocket food —
granola or fruit bars, candy, nuts or whatever blows your skirt up.

17 :Gung ho is Chinese for “work together.” It’s also a very good
plan. Aside from the natural synergism of people working together,
many problematic areas of preparedness
become easy with a team working on the prob¬
lem. For example, getting a $3,500 diesel gen¬
erator might be a bit steep for one family, but if
four neighbors chip in and get one to go where
the four backyard fences meet, they can share
time on the machine and all be set, but for
much less. If several families or friends get
together to buy storage food in bulk, they can
each buy a lot more for less money. If things
get dicey, neighborhood-watch type groups
working together can enhance security (no,
we’re not talking interlocking fields of fire
here, but pooling skills, tools, talent and train¬
ing). The granny next door who you fix up with
a power drop would be glad to mind your kids
while your significant other mans a traffic con-

strophic and be able to weather out material and societal problems
in reasonable comfort. And stay flexible.

; *19; Tend to your vices. Anything more than minor aberrations in
everyday life and commerce will stress you out. Put by a supply of
cbffee, tobacco, booze or whatever keeps you wherever is normal
for you. These are all good things to quit... but this is probably not
the time.

20; Remember Murphy: Get more duct tape and more hand
tips. Make sure those in your trusted circle share information on
what tools and abilities they have to offer. Even if you are an
apartment gnome, you should have the bare basics such as a ham¬
mer, pliers, wrenches, hacksaw and blades, files, carpenter’s glue,
epoxy glue (we like JB-Weld for almost everything), assorted fas¬
teners (screws, nails, light nuts and bolts). You get the idea.

The possible loss of infrastructure, particu¬
larly fire-protection, has been mentioned
above, but in case the point was not obvious,
we will belabor it: Have fire-fighting equip¬
ment at hand. A dry powder extinguisher
should be immediately available in the vicinity
of lanterns and liquid-fuel stoves. Plastic buck¬
ets of water (salted so not to freeze) and/or
buckets of dry sand with small shovels should
be in the vicinity of any flame source. About
1/4 of an old blanket kept immersed in a buck¬
et of salted water (with lid open for instant
access) should be in the vicinity of any kids
with candles — and away from small children
who can drown in a bucket. Get as many of the
best extinguishers as you can afford, and learn

A small generator will give you light, a medium-capacity generator
can run your house. A larger generator may serve as a small electric
co-op for city or suburban dwellers — providing mutual support as
well as electricity.

trol point. The electrician down the block you help with his projects
might be glad to help you isolate your house from the grid and set up
alternate power. You get the idea. You’ll get back what you give
from most folks, and the others, well, they don’t matter much in the
scheme of things.

A group of people working together not only gain from a sense of
community: people who look out for each other and look like a team are
much less likely to be singled out as targets for robbery or anything else.

1& Strive for normalcy. We put emphasis on getting gear and
supplies we’d use anyway, but which will be of particular help in a
Y2K scenario. It is this writer’s opinion that there is too much prof¬
it at stake for the movers and shakers to not get things back to nor¬
mal as soon as humanly possible. So our plan is to avoid the cata¬

how to use them, before you need them.

Now, go back to item #1 and start working on those lists. Involve
your whole tribe, as involved people are more helpful, and no one
person has all the good ideas. Then involve the neighborhood.
Good luck. Don’t forget the duct tape.

Pratt N. Whitney is a machine shop instructor in the
Northeast. ^

Put emphasis on getting gear and supplies you’d use anyway, but
which will be of particular help in a Y2K scenario. No matter what your
wife says, you can never have enough tools.

There are many sources for preparedness materiel. Although the ones
referenced in this story are not the only ones, we deem them reliable
dealers of quality products.Their telephone numbers are:

American Honda Motor Co.:

310-783-3745

Harbor Freight Tools:

800-905-5220

Manco Products, Inc- '

219-432-1596

Rolland Safe & Lock:

214-243-371 1

Skylar Group, Inc./RjK Power:

913-432-4664

watertanks.com:

888-742-6275

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Harbor Freight

■lies
ideoT^pe

How Hie Serbian Media

Report Hie War

American newspaper readers were recently regaled by Serbian news releases quoting
officials us divining that NATO was paying ersatz “refugees " $5.50 a day to march in an
endless circle before the world's press , to create a false impression of their numbers,
apparently harking to the emperor of yore who invited his hostile neighboring potentate
to sit with him while his minimal number of troops paraded in an endless belt before the
reviewing stand, out one end of the coliseum and then back in the other end, to create the
impression of a mighty force. Inasmuch as Serb forces are busily mining the Kosovo bor¬
der in anticipation of an attack, we doubt if a NATO official standing in the mud offering
SSJQf&r any both who would go back and do it again would have many takers.
Apparently the author of this child-like assertion operates outside any zone of reasonable¬
ness, and never heard of aerial photos. One would think that after 50 years of rule, the
remaining communist propaganda machines would have at least gotten good at it.
Apparently, that tt nat the case. *

Readers in the Ui-v: tend to view with skepticism what they read, not necessarily
trusting the objectivity nor technical expertise of those n'/io report the news. Well
we should, The Peter Arnetts of the world are still oat there. But perhaps the reader
will feel better after reading the following Serb news releases from last April, sent to
ns '"over the transom. ”

by Jaroslav
Mecar

sit

PhOtOS:

SOF Files

THE SERBIAN PEOPLE WILL PREVAIL
AGAINST AGGRESSION

The Yugoslav Army’s Third Army District has managed to
fully preserve its materiel, technical and combat means in the
Kosovo-Metohija, and NATO has suffered great losses, declared
in Pristina Colonel-General Nebojsa Pavkovic, commander of
the Yugoslav Army’s Third Army District.

Interviewed by Radio Pristina, General Pavkovic said that
the Yugoslav Army had managed to respond to assaults by 19
countries of the world, which have attacked Yugoslavia with
the most modem military technology, while members of the
Third Army District alone have managed to hit and down 16
aeroplanes, five helicopters, 46 cmise missiles and four pilot¬
less aircraft. The effects of NATO’s aggression against
Yugoslavia are negligible, said General Pavkovic, stressing
that the aggressor has not achieved its goals to cause a mass
armed rebellion in Kosovo, or to destroy the Yugoslav Army
and security forces. The third goal they have set, to bring in
ground troops, cannot be achieved without great causalities,
stressed the commander of the Third Army District, pointing
out that there are more than 150,000 people under arms in this
province. Even if every third rifle hits its target, General
Pavkovic warned, this will be the price the aggressor will pay
if he tries to come to Yugoslav territory.

THE LAW WILL PREVAIL IN
KOSOVO-METOHIJA

Serbian Minister of Police Stojiljkovic declared that the
evil force of NATO and the even worse terrorists have syn¬
chronized their activities, emphasizing that, since the begin¬
ning of the bombardment, 150 terrorist attacks have been car¬
ried out on towns and villages, along major roads and on facil¬
ities and units of the Serbian Interior Ministry. In these
attacks, the Serbian minister of police added, a number of
Interior Ministry members were killed, and even a larger num¬
ber were wounded. The response by the police was energetic
and resolute, and terrorist gangs have to come to answer
before the law, said Stojiljkovic, adding that the remnants of
the terrorist gangs continue constantly to keep police on alert
until even the last terrorist is caught.

ALBAN TERRORISTS RECRUITED IN U.S.A.

A further 100 Americans of Albanian origin arrived in Tirana
on Saturday 17 April, in order to fight in collusion with Albanian
terrorists for the cessation of Kosovo-Metohija, according to a
Reuters news report which cited a source close to the so-called
KLA terrorists.

As reported by the same source, upon landing at the airport

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

SOLDIER

As, wfoimuSte

TTII

mmimm

OF FORTUNE

- BOTH -
ANNUAL

1999 SOF Convention,
Three-Gun Tactical Match
and Consunter/Trade Exposition

New Location! New Location! New Location!

22-26 September 1999
Cashman Held, Las Vegas, NV

All Activities FREE far Conventioneers!

This year's exciting schedule of events Includes:
•Worid-FamousRrepowerDemo • Seminars
1 Participatory Events* • Awards Banquet with guest
speakers* Expo Hall—now at Cashman Reid,
with acres of accessible partdng • New evening
acdvldes* Special events in the Expo Hall
• Plus much morel

Conventioneer fee also includes exclusive
’99 Conventioneer t-shirt — specify size on coupon.

* Participatory Events may require separate fee.

1999 SOF Convention Pre-Registration Form

□ Yes! I want to be a part of the 1999 Convention

□ Check or money order enclosed. $150 must be received by
Aug. 23,1999. $175 after August 23.

Half refund by 8/23/99 * No refund after 8/23/99

□ Charge $_to my □ Mastercard □ Visa

Card Number_ Exp. Date \ ~\~\ I I

Signature _ 4 _

Name
Addr
City

Phone Number _

T-Shirt Size (circle one) S M L XL XXL XXXL

Mail with payment to: SOF Convention ’99 Pre-Registration
5735 Arapahoe Ave., Suite A-5, Boulder, CO 80303
^ Phone (303) 449-3750 ♦ FAX (303) 444-5617

IN M0GADISI

T ’ 1 - I if V ;■ - r

COLT’S NEW COWBOY 45
! TERRORISM 101

fUMPmusmiriup mmem urn

fine

r |TTT

Udo

l n 1 1

•HI

□12 Issues for $29.95

SAVE $30 Off Newsstand

□ 24 Issues for $46.80

SAVE $72 Off Newsstand

To Use m 3E coll 1-800-877-5207. International: call 1-815-734-4151.
Or mail coupon with payment to
Soldier of Fortune, PO Box 348, Mt Morris, IL 61054

^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Check One: □ Payment Enclosed □ Bill Me <u.s.+CMaoniy)

CITY/STATE*_

ZIP/COUNTRY:_

U.S. Funds Only. Canada add $10/yr. (Includes GST BN
12847 6249 FIT). Other Countries Add $21 /yr.

B262BI

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

well that this can only cause human casualties, which is actual¬
ly their main and only goal, said the expert.

The London Daily Observer wrote that the terrorists of the
so-called KLA are the NATO’s main ally in the aggression on
Yugoslavia. According to this British newspaper, the terrorists
send field information from Kosmet to NATO, which the
alliance uses in airstrikes. In the light of this information, is the
fact that this NATO-terrorist coalition is striking civilian targets
in Kosovo as well, razing residential facilities, and killing
women and children. This information published in the
Observer's Sunday issue shows concern by part of the British
public and politicians that the terrorists of the so-called KLA are
thus becoming NATO’s informal ally in the aggression on
Yugoslavia. The question arises as to whether it is possible that

the powerful NATO war machin¬
ery is relying on terrorist groups
led by criminals and drug deal¬
ers? This issue of the Observer
shows that this is, as it seems,
quite possible.

The Spanish Estrella Digital
electronic newspaper, under the
heading “Albright — Shooting
Target” writes that Malicious
Madeleine Albright is under fire
from the Pentagon, CIA and her
fuehrer, Bill Clinton, for the sim¬
ple reason of the complete failure
of NATO’s criminal attack on
Yugoslavia. The Spanish paper
claims that the conflicts within
the American establishment has
been smoldering for a long time,
and that they have reached their
peak several days ago. On the
occasion, at one of the numerous
meetings of the representatives of
the Pentagon, CIA and adminis¬
tration members at the White
House, occurred an open conflict
with “Charming Madeleine.”
Albright was accused of conduct¬
ing a bad foreign policy, of not
respecting expert analyses and of
taking risky steps. After that
ensued a feeble and unconvincing
attempt at “washing the blood off
one’s hands” in a Larry King Live
show on CNN. The CIA got
involved as well: “We cautioned, together with the Pentagon,
that Yugoslavia was not Iraq. She did not listen to us.” Estrella
Digital cites the claims of CIA experts that they had warned
Albright about all the consequences of the aggression against
Yugoslavia, especially of the numerous refugees who would be
caught in the bombing.

Under the headline “Serb Victims” The Washington Post
published a commentary by American Walter Roberts, who pre¬
sented the American public in the so-far clearest and most con¬
crete manner, with arguments and audacity, the truth about the
Serbian nation. Roberts pointed to the fact that NATO was
pushing lies and fabrications while conducting a policy of
destruction in the Balkans, anihilating and demonizing an entire
nation. The commentator points out that the U.S. media are
exploiting to the hilt the pictures and stories about refugees,
Kosmet Albanians, whereas they spoke not a single word when
the Croats expelled over 300,000 Serbs from Croatia with the
help from the U.S. in 1995. ^

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AUGUST 1M9

WORLD PRESS CONDEMNS
NATO AGGRESSORS

[Yugoslav Media Quotes Selected Foreign Media]

The war in Kosovo has not been provoked by the Serbs, but
it has rather been carefully planned and conceived by the cre¬
ators and promoters of the New World Order, and launched by
Bill Clinton for the benefit of American “death merchants” and
the military industry, writes the Wall Street Journal. The
American newspaper came to this conclusion on the basis of a
statement by former U.S. Army General John Heard, who is cur¬
rently serving in Macedonia as the director of the power supply,
services and construction sector of “Brown and Root Services.”
Heard said that the U.S. Army had instructed him to build a mil¬
itary infrastructure in Macedonia
that could be in use between three
and five years time, writes the
Wall Street Journal . According to
the newspaper, the U.S. Army,
under the guise of NATO, has
entered Macedonia and it obvi¬
ously intends to stay there at least
three to five years. Why is the
American nation always the last
to learn about such adventures
abroad into which our govern¬
ment is dragging us, wonders the
commentator of the Wall Street
Journal.

France requested the right of
veto to the decisions of the
aggressor Alliance in choosing
targets which are being struck in
Yugoslavia night and day, claims
the Paris paper, Liberation , quot¬
ing sources at the Elysee Palace.

It is believed in Paris that the
essence of the latest request lies
in the increasingly frequent and
tragic mistakes made by NATO’s
pilots, targeting and hitting civil¬
ians and civilian facilities. Out of
the numerous mistakes, two have
left a particularly nauseating
impression in France: the shelling
of the international passenger
train in Grdelica Gorge, and the
bombing of a Kosmet Albanian
refugee column, which was

returning to its home under the escort of the Yugoslav Army.

Now that the NATO bombs have killed the Albanian
refugees, the question is now wide open: What is the reason for
the bombing? concludes the New York Times , which, together
with the Washington Post , loudly criticizes the American media
due to the increasingly obvious propaganda campaign conduct¬
ed at the Pentagon and in Brussels.

Itar-Tass news agency has been told by an expert from the
Russian military and diplomatic services that over 600 vehicles
with Albanian refugees returned from Macedonia and the border
regions of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to Pristina and the
surrounding villages on April 6 and 7. Immediately after that,
NATO carried out a massive air strike and missile attack on the
outskirts of Pristina and the surrounding inhabited places. In the
night between April 6 and 7, the fierce bombardment of civilian
facilities in Pristina itself ensued. Having learned about the plans
for the return of 20,000, the NATO headquarters immediately
ordered massive strikes on downtown Pristina, knowing very

Professional Locksmithing Tools

J PXP 8 llilllll Wn^iw

LOCKAID ZZpW

Specifically designed to pick ^ H

tumbler locks. Designed over thirty ^

years ago to aid law enforcement agencies.
Consists of tension wrench, three needles and
Lockaid “Gun." Prices include a copy of the book
“Lockplcklng Simplified.”

Lockaid $69.95 _ llilllll

PXP 8

PIX MODEL 13

This deluxe yet compact kit
features 11 of the most commonly
used tools. Comes in a slim cowhide leather case
for discreet undercover operatives. As a ^
special bonus, a 5-piece set of warded /m
picks is included. A 1 6-piece set total. * / 1\

Also included, a copy of “Lockpicking
Simplified." Receive all this at a low price of
Pix 13 $42.95

• Shirt Rocket Siza \y

• Top Grain Cowhide sL

Leather. Ij^S

• Has 8 Picks, tension . ^

Wrenchs and Broken Kay c \
Extractor. \N

• All Picks with Metal \

Handles.

• Copy of Lockpicking Simplified.

PXP 8 $24.95

pxp io ijilOSii

• Shirt Pocket Siza V'

• Top Grain Cowhide Leather. v > •

• Has 13 Picks, Tension Wrenchs and Broken Key
Extractor.

• All Picks with Metal Handles.

• Copy of Lockpicking Simplified.

pxp io $34.95

Lockpicking Simplified

$8.50

Safe & Vault manipulation

Complete Guide to Lockpicking

$15.00

How to Pick Pins & Wafers

Improvised Lock Picks

$9.95

Combination Locks

Tubular Locks

$8.95

Keys by Impressioning

Lockout and forced entry

$11.95

Key Casting Manual

Involuntary Repression

$10.95

Locks, Picks, Clicks $

SESAMEE DECODER

This tool was designed to decode the exact
combination of a sesamee padlock without
damaging the lock. Detailed instruction included.

ESP-13 ' J 1 ' damaging the lock. Detailed instruction included.

This handy new pick set is the most popular set among
professional locksmiths today. This kit consists of 12 jt mn)

different tools housed in a handsome black leather case $17.95

designed for a shirt pocket. Included in the price, you
receive a 5-plece warded key set and a copy of

“Lockpicking Simplified." 17-plece set total. ^m

ESP-13 $45.95

MINI PICK TUBULAR

The most effective tubular pick on the market, unike the larger picte with long
handfes or screwdriver handtes The longer the tod, the more pressure needed

which causes easy breakage. The advantage of the MM Pick is it is so short, $79.95

you only use your thumb and index finger With a fittte practice this tod wfl open a tubular lock in less than a minute
A \bur Choice: (1) Center (2) Offset left (3) Offset right; R “SegaT 8 pin tubular C 5-pin Tubular Q Spin Tubular; E. 8-Pin Ace.

The best single tool for most pin tumbler locks • Opens many locks in seconds
High quality aluminum construction • Used by locksmiths worldwide

E100C (3 volt). $ 99.95

Catalog $3.00 — Free with order.
Allow three weeks delivery
on Personal Check Orders.
Money orders ship same day
received.

All major credit cards
accepted. _

pix-ez i s/zz

All-In-One

Pick-Set \ Mr

100% American Madel ga

As convenient to carry \M

and use as a pocket knife! *

Only 4 inches long, half inch square, weighs under five
ounces, works fast and opens pin and water tumbler
locks quickly, with very little effort Six tempered spring
steel picks, tension wrench. $34.95

WKS P!CKS Jll

Made of the finest blue tempered / /1\\
spring steel, this 5-piece padlock i | J *
pick-set is a must in every lock¬
smiths’ tool box. This set will pick open most
every warded padlock made today. $9.95

MONTHLY SPECIAL

RECEIVE A COMBINATION SET
INCLUDES —5 ITEMS

1-MD-16 DELUXE SET. «

1-SCHALGE WAFER SET.

1-SESAMEE DECODER.« 17 ‘g 5

1-WKS PICKS.$ gigs

1-DOUBLE SIDED TUMBLER PICKS .. 820.85

A VALUE OF $147.75

AT A LOW PRICE OF $89.95

Shirt Pocket Size, Top Grain
Cowhide Leather, Zippered
Case, has 16 Picks, Tension
Wrenches and Broken Key
Extractor.

Hip Pocket Size,
Top Grain
Cowhide Leather,
Zippered Case,
has 32 picks,
Tension Wrenches
Broken Key
Extractor.

DOUBLE SIDED DISK TUMBLER PICKS

Set of 4 picks designed to be used on the most popular double¬
sided disc tumbler, showcase, cam and padlocks.

$29.95 SCHLAGE WAFER

The most fantastic tool you will
Electric Picks ever use. This set consists of two

base keys and pick. Complete in¬
structions included.

$29.95 ^

MD60

Top Grain Cowhide Leather, Zippered Case,
has 60 picks, Tension Wrenches, Broken Key
Extractor and Warded Master Keys. $109.95

GUNROOM

The law requires aD Send tO

Steve Arnolds

without make Gun Room

believe or fraud by .

genuine persons Postage & handling

within this industry $6.00

Overseas postage add
30% of total.

P.O. Box 68, Dept. SF8, Dexter, OR 97431; (541 )726-6360 Must be 18 o >( e a a g r ®
Web Address: www.gun-room.com E-mail: gunroom@pacwest.net

AUGUST 1999 X SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

FREE Report Reveals G-Jo Acupressure, First-Aid of the Samurai.

Now-Fear No Pain or Injury!

It’s true! As a Master of G-Jo Acupressure, you
| ' if ■'ini, I can "erase” pain (and most other common ail-

ments) in seconds ... using nothing but the touch
M of your finger! G-Jo is based on a network of
secret pressure points (many of them used in the
IetSt /l^BL martial arts). When an injury occurs, simply reach
3 T / WS& S& for the right G-Jo point ... “trigger” it in a special

[''^0 Be up and ready for action in moments -- or
y help your loved ones, friends or students - using
^ this remarkable technique. G-Jo is so foolproof it

works for skeptics as well as “believers.” Armed
with this secret, ancient knowledge, you too can
W l 1 now erase pain and suffering anytime, anyplace!
This skill is vital for those in the martial arts ... healing arts ... survivalists and
outdoorsmen - or anyone who ever finds himself far from doctors, medicines
and hospitals. G-Jo is safe for all ages ... natural ... effective in healing
hundreds of injuries and ailments ... and it works instantly ! Not only for the
relief of serious injuries -- G-Jo relieves headaches ... backaches ... and
most other common ailments in seconds!

In fact, G-Jo is so powerful and effective, it can even become your total
health care program! Yet this profusely illustrated training program is so easy,
you can actually become certified as a Master of G-Jo Acupressure in as
little as one weekend of study! It’s the world’s only home-study acupressure
program available. Act now !

The G-Jo Institute, Dept201, PO Box 1460, Columbus, NC 28722

Or Call (828) 863-4660

Send for your FREE Report Today!

“Teaching G-Jo Acupressure Since 1976”

www.g-jo.com

PARA-GUERRILLA

Equipment

A Unique force Multiplier!

TRY THE NATO SPECIAL FORCES

7” Square Stainless Blade - 4 Blood Grooves
Skull Crusher - Black Rubber Grip - Matte Finish

4-Way Dagger Sheath

Straight —

• on belt • on leg

Upside Down

on Alice suspender • on LBV vest

Unit Price: U.S. $135.00 each
ShipTHand.: U.S. $5.50
Total: U.S. $140.50

Check with local law before Importing!

Name:_

Address:_Apt. #:_

City:_State:_Zip:_

Country:_ Daytime Phone:_

Payment (check one) G Money Order Q Check Q VISA

MO YR

Exp. Date □ American Express □ EuroCard □ Diner’s Club

c ard Nomu

ARSENAL FRANCE

U.S. ARMY EQUIPMENT GUNS & AMMO

54, rue Jacquemars GieleS, F-59800,
F-59800 Lilie France
Visit our website: www.us-aisenai.com
E-mail: negoce@us-arsenal.com

Omega Proutng Ground

Continued from page 46

tom handguards on the Colt M16A2 M4
Carbine. Be advised that they are 90- to
110-thousandths larger than the issue hand-
guards. Installation and removal of any
handguards for the M16 series requires per¬
severance and patience.

Two high-pressure xenon/halogen lamp
assemblies are provided. The MN10 lamp
generates 125 lumens. This compares to the
60 lumens of the popular 6P SURE-FIRE
flashlight and the 105 lumens of the larger 9R
Extended running time of the MN10 lamp is
one hour. The MN11 MAX lamp assembly
will give you 225 lumens. Designed for inter¬
mittent operations of no more than 2 to 3 min¬
utes, it has a run time of approximately 20
minutes. Reflector assembly bezel diameter
of the M500A is 1% inches.

For those who literally need knock¬
down light power, the M500B Magnum
Millennium Weaponlight offers both 250
(MN21 lamp for extended run time) and
500 (MN21 MAX lamp) lumens of light
power. Reflector assembly bezel diameter
of this unit is 2.5 inches. The tightly focused
beam on this unit was designed for dynam¬
ic entries — to blast in and blind the oppo¬
nent. No one can return fire with 500
lumens of dazzling white light searing
through his eyeballs into his brain. Non¬
complying prisoners or suspects turn to
putty and can be controlled like sheep when
this type of non-lethal force is applied. In
addition, 500 lumens offers the light power
required to reach out to the longer distances
encountered by rifle operators outside
buildings and in rural areas. The M500B
Millennium Magnum Light runs on six
lithium batteries (18 volts).

The even newer M510A and M510B
Millennium Weaponlights were developed
to replace the standard-size Colt M16A2
handguards. There is now also an M511A
and M511B SURE-FIRE Millennium which
will accommodate the handguard configu¬
ration of the Vietnam-War-era M16A1 —
still in service with a substantial number of
law enforcement agencies.

The light itself on the SURE-FIRE
Millennium series is located at 1:30 o’clock
and this gives the operator a completely
clear field of view. All of the switches are
built-in. There are no loose or exposed
wires. Three D1123A lithium batteries are
included.

There is a SURE-FIRE tactical lighting
system available for interface with almost
every weapon commonly used by armed
professionals. The exceptional quality of
these products is matched by Laser
Products’ dedication to continuing innova¬
tion in modem flashlight technology. More
police tactical teams and military special
forces units use SURE-FIRE flashlights
than any other make. Once you’ve used
their equipment, the reasons for this become
obvious. — Peter G. Kokalis ^

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

Lessons From Last Time

Continued from page 53

leave the Balkans relatively intact. In the
end it was the Soviet Red Array, not
Chetniks and Partisans, that liberated
Yugoslavia.

The Next Balkans War

It could be argued that there were two
conflicts in Yugoslavia during World War II
— the German conquest and the guerrilla
war that followed. Those looking for
lessons can take their pick. Clearly, policy¬
makers have chosen the guerrilla lesson, but
it is the conventional warfare one that most
closely fits the current situation. If NATO
does decide to launch a ground war it will
face a standing army, not guerrillas, as the
first order of business. And, unlike the
Germans, NATO has no intention of forcing
the surrender of Belgrade; it only seeks to
make Kosovo safe for a return of the
Albanian Muslim refugees. Considering
that 90 percent of Kosovo is (or was)
Albanian, there would not be much of a sea
in which the Serb guerrillas could swim.

Terrain is also an issue. No army can
overestimate its ability to overcome rugged
mountains and poor weather, but the
Germans proved it could be done, even with
heavy mechanized units. They attacked in
the spring, during the rainy season, but
sound planning prevailed over muddy
roads. In the case of a NATO ground war,
rugged terrain will be less of a problem.
With only Kosovo to consider, allied forces
can take advantage of several open valleys,
though they will also have to consider the
mountains that surround them.

Perhaps most importantly, a NATO
“incursion” into Kosovo will have none of
the characteristics of the German occupa¬
tion of Yugoslavia. The Nazis used Yugo¬
slavia to fuel its war machine, sucking the
economy and natural resources dry, while
NATO will undoubtedly inject millions of
dollars into the devastated region in an
attempt to nurse the country back to health.

One aspect of a NATO ground war
might actually be more difficult than the
German offensive: Where Hitler could
threaten neighboring countries into support¬
ing, or at least acting as staging grounds —
Clinton and NATO must reason with them.
Austria has already said no, Hungary is
reluctant to stand against the Serbs, and
Greece and Macedonia have so far refused
to be used as stepping-off points.

So when members of Congress and
other policymakers start throwing out his¬
torical analogies, they would do well to
look at all the evidence. A ground war in
Yugoslavia will not be easy, but in the
final analysis, the obstacles are political,
not military.

Dale Andrade is a military historian and
a senior SOF correspondent , living in
Virginia . ^

■ TkWfiL INTENSITY

QalkBATTLEFIELD

De pends On Your jk

PERSPECTIVE

Get a new perspective on the world of small arms
with SMALL ARMS WORLD REPORT

—the journal from the INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH
ON SMALL ARMS IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Write for more information or send US $5
(refundable with membership) for sample
copy of SMALL ARMS WORLD REPORT to: .

TKsyxjs

6320 Olde Towne Ct., Dept. A
Alexandria, VA 22307
(703) 765-9771
FAX: (703) 765-9773

IRSAIS accepts American Express jg3'

Baden KB & Tactical Schools

Offering both trained dogs and training in:

♦ Anti-terrorist/hostage extraction

♦ Perimeter & crowd control

♦ Surveillance, counter measures

♦ Special ops for military, law enforcement and
corporate interests

♦ S.A.R.

International security consultants, extraction teams and corporate advisory

groups available for immediate global deploy¬
ment. Our training personnel are active in their
field in some of the hottest spots in the world.

U.S.M.C. and I.D.F. specialists on-site. We offer
the most intense and comprehensive training
courses in the world.

From the jungles of Cambodia to the streets of
New York City, our dogs have proven their
courage and stability*

For more information, please contact us at:

TEL: (905) 562-3095
FAX: (905) 562-4242

Email: SOF@badenk9.com
Visit our Web Site
www.badenk9.com

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Military personnel build their own three-dimensional
camouflage suits because it is the most effective means of
concealment. This BUSH RAG kit contains all the materi¬
als needed to build your own "ghillie" suit! The BUSH
RAG is light (3lbs), can be made to match any environment
(from desert to woodland) and is versatile. The user can
change the colorations of the suit while in the field to
match any change in terrain. Also, the BUSH RAG was
designed to hide the most recognizeable features of the
body, the head, torso, back, upper arms and legs, while
leaving the lower portions of your arms and legs free of
hindrances. This kit comes complete with eight colors of
burlap (BLACK, BROWN, TAN, O.D., GRASS GREEN,
DESERT GREEN, FOREST GREEN AND SAGE), torso
netting, head netting, belt, and complete directions. This
kit can also be configured Into a military style ghillie suit!

$49.95 + $7.00 S/H

CA RESIDENTS ADD 7.75% SALES TAX

1(877)810-9614

OR WRITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OUR

CAMOUFLAGE PRODUCTS.

CSI -11271 Ventui a - *297 - stirtflo City, CA 9i$[M

Log on at: WWW.BUSHRAG.COM

PRODUCT INDEX

American Honda

Motor Co.65

Black Hills Ammo . .. .20, 58

Bushnell.20

Cabela’s.16

Century International.16

Colt.44

CZ-USA .44

Federal Arms.16

Graf & Sons.16

Harbor Freight Tools.65

Laser Products .46

Leatherwood Optics .16

Manco Products Inc.65

Michael’s of Oregon .45

Paul Jones.16

Rolland Safe & Lock.65

Skylar Group Inc./

RJK Power.65

Smith Arms International .58

Thunder Ranch .54

United Cutlery.45

watertanks.com.65

The Wilderness.58

William J. Middleton .16

Apaclte Tears

Continued from page 39

Then finally, when the Apaches did
arrive, someone forgot to inform the pilots
that half the world’s media was there to
cover the event and the helos touched down
far on the other side of the airport, with their
tail rotors to the cameras in, what many
thought, was a sign of embarrassment.

For the next 48 hours the Army tried to
repair their bruised image, arranging for the
press to meet with Apache pilots and photo¬
graph the aircraft, but events were soon
going to supersede good intent in a way that
no one could have foreseen.

Less than 72 hours after first setting
down at Rinas — while on a night training
exercise — one of the crews clipped the
branches of a tree and the helicopter burst
into flames and was destroyed. Thankfully,
the crew was able to get out safely.

“I was with this battalion in the Gulf
War,” said Scripps-Howard correspondent
Michael Hedges. “I had done this interview
with their commander, a lieutenant colonel,
who told me that they were very concerned
about friendly fire deaths, etc. I wrote the
story and then forgot about it. Not a few
weeks later, during the first hours of ground
operations against Iraq, do I hear that this
lieutenant colonel was himself responsible
for a friendly fire death. I was stunned.”

Hedges wasn’t the only one with reser¬
vations about the 11th Aviation Battalion.
Not a week before the first Apaches actual¬
ly deployed to Albania, SOF became privy
to an email circulating among Pentagon
planners describing the performance of the
11th in less than stellar terms.

Critical Message

“Great. Another piecemeal escalation,”
the email began. “And AH-64s? Correct me
if I’m wrong but wasn’t this the same outfit
who came here [to a target range in
Germany] less than 30 days ago and couldn’t
find the target on their first ‘deep operation?’

“Even after we constructed mockups,
put thermal signatures on each piece of
equipment, surrounded them with a live
MRC and put them in a designated engage¬
ment area in a training area 15 x 10km and
they were the only force in the box, they
couldn’t find the target,” the email contin¬
ued. “And wasn’t this the same unit that on
the next operation 48 hours later in the same
training area, with a unit moving down a
designated route, with a known start time
didn’t hit 50% of the targets?

“Oh yeah, don’t let me forget to say that
prior to their first operation they flew a day¬
light recon over and around the training
area. And we are sending these guys to
Albania? Let’s all hope that the training did
them some good and their performance in
combat will be better than at the Burger
King Training Center. ‘Hope is our method’
— the new motto of the U.S. Army Europe.”

Unfortunately for one Apache crew, better

training might have actually saved their lives.
Less than two weeks after deploying to
Albania, without even having flown one
combat mission, the 11th AB lost its first air
crew over northern Albania during a training
mission which took it through some of the
most rugged terrain anywhere in the Balkans.

When SOF tried to speak with the Army
about the 11th Aviation Battalion and all of
the problems they have had with this
deployment we received a large dose of
runaround.

“Sorry, I can’t answer those questions,”
said Army Captain Jeff Settle, Task Force
Hawk press officer. “You’re going to have
to refer them to USAREUR.”

When SOF called USAREUR, we were
told that all of our questions were being
referred back to either Capt. Settle or
Lieutenant Colonel Game Doman, “because
they are the best people to answer them.”

Not Forthcoming

But when SOF again tried to speak with
Lt. Col. Doman we were told by an aide that
he was busy dealing with NBC news anchor
Tom Brokaw, who was on base that after¬
noon talking with troops.

SOF played a game of phone tag and
can’t-answer-that ping-pong for nearly two
days before a USAREUR civilian press
officer called us back, saying, “I spoke
today with the 11th Aviation Battalion com¬
mander Colonel Oliver Hunter, and he said
although the unit has sustained losses they
were still functioning and would soon com¬
mence combat operations.”

“He also told me that he didn’t know
how many hours on average each pilot flew
per month’ but he did say the Battalion had
done live fire exercises at Grafenwohr,
Germany, at least twice in the past year.”

“What about the bad luck the Battalion
had suffered during the Gulf War and now
in Albania,” we asked?

“We don’t want to discuss that now, if
that’s OK,” the press officer told SOF.
‘Today we held die memorial service for
the two airmen who died the other day when
their Apache crashed in Albania.”

While our reporting and investigation
reflected a little bit on why the Army didn’t
show up on time and gave us a small insight
into the troubled 11th Aviation Battalion,
there were many more questions waiting to
be answered about Task Force Hawk and its
mission than we even imagined.

The Rumor Mill

Was it possible, as we had heard from
many observers on the ground, that the
Apache deployment and the creation of
Task Force Hawk was a feigning movement
by NATO — like the rumors of a Marine
landing on the beaches of Kuwait during the
Gulf War — or that the troops tasked to
Hawk really were in Albania for another,
yet undefined mission?

“Who really knows?” a civilian staffer
with AFOR, NATO’s Albania Force com¬
mand headquarters in Tirana, Albania, said.
“They could be here as the first troops of a

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

potential Kosovo invasion force. They could
be here for something that we don’t know
about, or they could be here to protect the
Albanian government from internal threats.”

The Albanian government, while demo¬
cratically elected, faces internal threats
from various factions, including the grow¬
ing power of the Kosovo Liberation Army
— which uses Albanian territory in the
north of the country to launch strikes
against Serb forces in Kosovo — as well as
any number of Mafia factions which rule
parts of the country with iron fists.

“The idea that the Apaches are here to
fool the Serbs carries some weight,” our
AJFOR source told us. “I mean they haven’t
flown a single [combat] mission in nearly a
month, the force protection they have
around them includes tanks and Bradleys.
Why do you need armor to protect a civil¬
ian airport a hundred miles from the front?
And from whom? The KLA? The
Yugoslavian army? Why would you have
the 82nd Airborne Division here? Wouldn’t
another unit do just as well?”

“Also, look at where the Army is,” our
source went on. ‘They’re all concentrated
in Tirana. If they were here as the vanguard
of an invasion force, why are there no ele¬
ments in northern Albania? The Army has¬
n’t even made serious reconnaissance in the
area. Lastly, look at who is here. These
aren’t the kind of units you would bring in
for an invasion force. Christ, if anyone can
figure this out, please let me know,” our
NATO source concluded.

These are interesting points in view of
the fact there has been no reaction from these
deployed “rapid reaction” forces to cross-
border incursions by the JNA, and that Task
Force Hawk repeatedly assured us the armor
was there solely for force protection.

While the make-up of Task Force Hawk
continued to be a subject of much argu¬
ment, the Army steadfastly refused to
answer questions on any of the points
brought up by SOF and other media.

When In Doubt, train

However, as SOF 's latest foray to the
Balkans wound down, we learned from
sources within Task Force Hawk that
Apache pilots had been spending much of
their flying time running simulated mis¬
sions and doing live fire exercises in north¬
ern Albania, leading many to once more
speculate about the real mission of Task
Force Hawk.

Was it possible, then, we mused, that the
Army was using the Apaches to protect
northern Albania from cross-border incur¬
sions by the Yugoslavian army or protect
the KLA’s supply routes into Kosovo? Or
are they training for the specific hazards of
an assault into Kosovo.

“The Army has made it very clear what
the mission of Task Force Hawk is,” said
Brian Temple, a USAREUR spokesman in
Germany. “There’s nothing more to it.”

Mark H. Milstein is SOF’s chief foreign
correspondent. ^

T—\

Twin 370 HP Turbo Cummins Diesels with Warranties. 342 hrs on Engines,
Castoli Jet Drives, Kevlar Hull, Bow Post/Machine Gun Mount. 42 Person Capacity,
Radar, GPS/Plotter, Depth Sounder, 2 VHF Radios, Triaxel Trailer, Etc.

Only Two of These RIBs Exist. Navy Special Operations Has the Other One.
Replacement Cost Over $400,000.

Selling For $185,000 U.S. Dollars. Trades Considered.

Located in Ohio on the Great Lakes.

Contact Neal at (440) 257-4872

“I had a farm in Africa ... " - Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

Land In Africa For Sale!

Own an operating safari ranch, investment or secluded getaway

South Africa

N. of Kimberely, owner retiring, fenced
8900 acres, new home & hunting camp,
a steal at $650,000!

E.Cape, U.S. owner will sell his half of
operating safari ranch for $35OK. 5900
acres, SA partner will stay or sell out.

Namibia

Namibian wilderness, owner retiring, over 25,000 acres near Fish River canyon, only $450,000!

Zambia

Luangwa River development, great site for upscale lodge. 84 acres, $165,000.

Zimbabwe

U.S. owner of 20,000 acre operating game farm will sell shares, financing available. 600 Cape
buffalo at last count; lion, sable, much more. Luxury home, 2 hunting camps, fenced.

Patrick Munn, Lt. Col., U.S. Army, Retired

Owner/Broker, RE/MAX Southern

1815 N. Expressway, Ste. C, Griffin, GA 30223

770-487-5473 Ph/Fax e-mail: usarelo@mindspring.com

For complete list of properties, send $4.95 check/m.o. in US funds to above address.
Information believed accurate but not warranted or guaranteed.

Each RE/MAX office is independently owned & operated.

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

ADVERTISERS INDEX

African Real Estate.73

Automatic Knife

Resource Guide.23

Baden K-9.71

Blackhawk Industries .8-9

Bud K Worldwide .76

Camouflage Products.72

Chase-Durer.Cover 4

Direct Action Video.7

Eden Press .77

Excalibur Electro Optics Inc. 24

G. G. & G.10

G-Jo Institute .70

Global Adventures .76

Global School of

Investigation .77

Glock.15

Greene Military.77

Hatherleigh Publishing.22

Inter-American Security

Products.76

IRSAIS.71

Ka-Bar Knives.21, 29

L.A. Law Enforcers.77

LAR Grizzly.21

LRRP K-9 Services.75

Matthews Police Supply .76

Michigan Body Armor.75

Military Book Club.18-19

Military Media .17

MoroVision Night Vision ... .75

Neal Smith.73

Nintendo.13

Paladin Press.5, 34-35

Professional Career

Development.75, 76,77

Quik-Rip Labs.75

Robinson Armament Co. .. .12

S&K Labs.76, 77

Shooting Systems.75

Silver Creek.76

Silverman’s.6

Smith & Wesson.33

SOF Convention .47

SOF T-Shirts .29

SOS T-Shirts & Jackets.11

Southern Ordnance.33

Steiner.21

Steve Arnold’s Gunroom .. .69

Taurus.Cover 2

Threat Response Systems 25-28

U.S. Army Equipment.70

U.S. Cavalry .75

USI Corp.77

watertanks.com.Cover 3

Gun Control

Continued from page 60

group had made plans for a raid on the
Jewish kindergarten in Munich. We found
the photos, ground plans etc. Apparently, the
planning of the attack was pretty far along.

For years, schoolbuses, kindergartens,
schools etc. were targeted by PLO terrorists.
Prior to the Pan Am 103 bombing, we here
in Germany (this was in 1988) got intelli¬
gence information that a certain PLO splin¬
ter group had made a photo recce of the
kindergarten. Also, a few weeks later, we
learned that a major hostage/barricade situa¬
tion was planned for the main synagogue in
Frankfurt. Here a safehouse was detected
nearby which already contained hand
grenades, explosives, ammo and a whole
variety of automatic firearms (AKs). All that
was missing was the hit team coming in
from Beirut. This was supposed to be one in
a series of incidents planned for autumn/
winter of 1988, targeting Jewish/Israeli
installations all over Europe. The attacks
were foiled thanks to early intelligence and a
wave of arrests (operation “Autumn
Leaves’'), but that did not prevent the down¬
ing of the Pan Am flight, and later, a French
plane in North Africa.

So you do not have to be a prophet to
foresee, that we will see more school-shoot¬
ing incidents in the U.S., or other Western
nations, where media attention is focused
on these things and where every incident is
replayed second by second, umpteen times
on the tube, thereby creating in the minds of
certain viewers examples to follow ...

Now, can we stop the media from play¬
ing out these scenarios in full-color and
gruesome details for hours and hours, again
and again? Certainly not. We in the terror¬
ism research field have argued for decades
that it was exactly the media coverage that
spurred more and each time more violent
and extreme terrorist incidents. Could we
stop the media from advertising the terrorist
message? Certainly not.

That is apparently one price we have to
pay living in a worldwide infotainment soci¬
ety. The airplane hijackings in the 70s and
80s are a case in point.

Nothing much we can do with the media
these days, they are the “New World
Order,” so to speak. During the height of
international terrorism we have argued
again and again with media people to down-
tone terr attacks in their reports, to no avail.
Similarly, what can we do with Hollywood
moviemakers who provide the blueprint for
disasters like Littleton? Nothing much; not
as long as they bankroll the election cam¬
paign of people like Clinton.

What can you do about it? The Jewish
communities in Germany maintain their
own guard network and apply for gun-car¬
rying licenses.

Protect possible victims? Laws written
in books will not achieve that. Never have,
never will. Enough said. I rest my case. ^

White Feather

Continued from page 43

Silver Star. Those few higher-ups in USMC
with close ties to the Clinton administration
were of the opinion that Hathcock was
lucky to get even that, for strange political
reasons. Perhaps, some have speculated,
those who make up the Clinton administra¬
tion — who have combined military experi¬
ence of none — just don’t get the signifi¬
cance of military sniping. It’s possible they
don’t view Hathcock as the life-saving
American hero he truly was.

Despite that insult, Hathcock didn’t
want for recognition. Two ranges carry his
name, including the Hathcock Sniper
Range, at Stone Bay, and the Virginia
Beach, Va., Police Range. For most of 30
years after he left active-duty service, he
continued addressing crowds as an honored
speaker, and was constantly appearing as
the hero in newspaper and magazine stories.
Clubs have been named after him near mil¬
itary establishments all over the world.

Gun stores, surplus stores and military
supply outfits carry Hathcock memorabil¬
ia. Knives are engraved with his name, as
well as T-shirts, hats and drinking cups.
Rifle scopes and other products have been
named in his honor. Talon Corporation
produces the Carlos Hathcock line of
White Feather ammunition in .30 caliber,
and is proposing a line in .50. And the list
could go on and on.

Before he left the Marine Corps just a
few months shy of 20 years’ service,
Hathcock served as the first NCOIC of the
USMC Scout Sniper school, an institution
well known as the very best of its kind.
While serving in that capacity he and sever¬
al others conceived the USMC mildot reti¬
cle for sniper scopes, which is widely
acknowledged as one of the major achieve¬
ments in long-distance marksmanship.

Carlos never viewed himself as a killer.
“He used to often say that someone would
have to be crazy to just go out in the woods
to kill people. He always said that he was
just doing a job trying to save the lives of
Marines. It is one thing to say that,” said
Land, “but Carlos viscerally believed it.”

“What I would really like people to
understand is that Carlos had total integrity
in all things,” says Land. “He was one of the
most honest people I’ve ever met. There
was absolutely no bullshit about him. For
example, he shot an enemy officer out of a
boat. I was debriefing him and when he got
to the part where he described the officer’s
uniform and said he thought he might have
been Red Chinese, I said, as Marines some¬
times do: ‘Carlos, you gotta be shittin’ me!’
His eyes crackled and he said, ‘No sir, I
don’t tell no lies.’”

Iron Brigade Publishers' fax: 910-346-
1134 .

John Hogan is a frequent contributor to
Soldier Of Fortune magazine . ^

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

PROTECT YOURSELF
FROM A .44 MAGNUM

for as low as S 165 N

Soft, comfortable, concealable body
armor that weighs less than 3 lb.

Vests are made with 18 layers
of DuPont Kevlar

5 year warranty on ballistics

Adjustable ballistic panel carriers
available in white and navy

RedIum^Bt small iBr largg^^^^^^j^

L 18n J s 1B5i 220 J I

•plus shipping & handling

X-LARG€ AND XX-LARGG ALSO AVAILABLE
All orders must be pre-paid or C.O.D.
Preferred Shipping: via FedEx 2/3 Day Service

I MICHIGAN BODY ARMOR I

37637 Five Mile Rd. Ste. 324
Livonia, Ml 48154 • (734 ) 394-2134

Holsters, Tactical Gear

Shooting Systems, formerly
Assault Sysnems. is the
world s original manufac¬
turer of nylon holsters,
assault rifle cases and tac¬
tical gear. Our premium
f?jflrrty products and inno¬
vative designs set our
products apart from the
companion For a Free |
page color catalog,
contact us at the informa¬
tion provided. Since 1979

5tiaotlrt^ Systems Group, Inc.

205Largs Drive, Washington, MO 63090 Ci__

TciH-Fras sro-3K-304g Fax 3i tWSTT
lira-TOt www shoeanf^sscenw com
emBi&BiiodLTra^tenTsixom

Become a private
investigator!

Home study. Make good money in
an action-packed career.
Solve crimes, find miss¬
ing persons, expose
frauds. Work for attorneys, in¬
surers, and celebrities—or
start your own business. For
your free career literature,
send or call 24 hours a day.

Call 800-223-4542

City/State _ Zip

Tlte School of Private Investigation

Dept. JRJ171, 6065 Roswell Itoad
PCDI, Atlanta, Georgia

LRRP K-9

SECURITY SERVICES

Pups and Trained Adults Available

Brochure $3.00/Brochure & Video $8.0
Major Credit Cords Accepted
Box 1620-AAA • Aiken, SC 29802

(803) 649-5936

*Jhe Mercedes
Benz of executive

U.S. MANUFACTURED

LOWEST PRICES GUARANTEED!

» Largest Selection in the USA!

» Super Specials: Now Save up to 40%

* Industry Leader Since 1991!

* 2-Year Warranty!

» Iron-Clad Money-Back Guarantee!

"The Premium K-9."
- SOF Magazine

www.morovision.com

ORDERS: 1-800-424-8222

Info: 949-497-4683 • Fax: 949-497-1270

M'O'R'O'VISION

NIGHT VISION SPECIALIST SINCE 1991

218 Broadway, Suite 307/SF, Laguna Beach, CA 92651

Survive with CAV Gear:

• Survival & Camping Gear

• Shooting Accessories

• GORE-TEX® Outerwear

• MREs • Blankets

• Water Purification • First Aid

• Tools & Knives • Night Vision

• Uniforms • Boots

• Body Armor • Flashlights

• Navigation • Surplus

For Your FREE
Full-Color Catalog Call

1 - 800 - 317-9455

Shop Online:

uscav.com

STEROIDS

PROFESSIONAL REPLACEMENT

TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS

The safe and legal* Steroid replacement
supplement with no harmful side effects.

• Dramatically increases your testosterone levels
50% Or more in just 5 days (Milanov, Malleva and Taskov,
doc . 1981). Increased testosterone means faster,
easier, lean muscle growth and increasedfat bum.

• Imported in its most powerful form. 100%
TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS is hands-down the
most effective muscle ripping , fat-burning
anabolic available over-the-counter today.

• TRIBULUS TERRESTRIS offers massive
anabolic muscle gains. It's the best legal*
supplement for anyone looking to gain mass,
definition, strength and increasedfat loss.

*Any stronger formulation would require a prescription. All
Natural. No Synthetics. No Animal By-Products.

1-877-784-5747 dJJHilflfc

- 1 ii ij-h i hn-ij ii*y

MONEY BA CK 0 UA RA S TEF

Quik*Rip Labs I

1280 Bison Ave., Ste. B9507
Newport Beach, CA 92660 1

□ One Bottle (90 Tablets) $29.95 '

| | Two Bottle Special $59.90 L

(Get a 3rd Bottle FREE!) Q C.O.D. (add $7.00)

□ Credit Card Order | | Foreign Orders, add 25%

JHIil n Check/Money ^ “ USS

^ Order Enclosed l_| Free Catalog with Order

Yl D

FREE Catalog!

L |i||i 11111II ITTTiTI

Swards and
Solf-Defense Hems

Clip coupon and mail to address below.

1/EQl Please send me the FREE
ltd! 64- Page Catalog!

Name

Address

_ State _

-Zip-

>Jrt) Worldwide, Inc.

P.O. Box 2768 • Dept SD3 • Moultrie, GA 31776

#1 WORLD SUPPLIER
BODY ARMOR

Y2K

COMPLETE LINE OF

CONCEALABLE VESTS

(IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT)

FULL LINE OF

TACTICAL

BODY ARMOR

For Armor Catalogue send $4.00
or $15.00 for 1200 page complete set

Inter-American
Security Products, Inc.

13615 S. Dixie Hwy., Suite 1144
Miami , Florida 33176-7252
Ph.: (305) 256-0370
FAX: (305)235-0603
E-Mail:interam@gate.net
www.interamer.com

BECOME A GUN REPAIR EXPERT!

Prorriwolid-ltV^ -'iD-me sludy cults*. Learn ta rupoir
rillBB, Bl^liJuht Wf*k*\ Bflt*ISiW|L
ir si j - ycui awn bualnnis, Send or eaH 24 houi-i a iKay.

FREE LITERATURE: A T>

CALL 800-223-4542

The School of Gunsmithlng, Dept. GGJ171
PCDI, 430 Technology Pkwy., Norcross, GA 30092

BULLET PROOF VEST

This Class 11-A-
Kevlar soft body
armor will defeat the
.45 ACP, .357 Mag.,

9mm. 00 Buck and
knife attack. Tested
at the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds by
the U.S. Government
Edgewood Arsenal.

Front and back pro¬
tectors: $220. Side
Panels: $45 per set. Trauma plate $35. Sizes S, M, L, XL.

ALSO: Reloaded Ammunition: .38 spl. I58gr. fmj
$ 125/M, 9mm 115gr. FMJ $125/M, 40cal. 180 gr. FMJ
$165/M, .45 ACP 230 gr. FMJ $165/M. Reloading since 1974.

-SEMD CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TD:

MDC Pn 1441 W. John St., Matthews, NC 28106
I I r 3 LU. Phone: ( 704 ) S47-S793 Fax (704) 847-4447

T I l alL1H#*r* "I WNhEllB: frfrW.iqpaHrjiny Cpm_

TO BE TAKEN Orally. No harmful aide effects

S&K Labs Boron

This product has been historically used to
raise Testosterone levels up to 300%.
When you raise your bodys testosterone
level you drastically Increase your body’s
ability to create lean muscle mass. Would
you like to sculpt your body with huge
healthy hard muscles and get that lean
awesome body builder physique? Our
lOmg Boron is 3 times the strength of
almost all competitors. If you are not
completely satisfied with the growth you
obtain, return it for a full refundl

3 month cycle for only $14.95 Also
ask about S&K Labs most powerful testosterone enhancer A.T.D.C.
““ liJ.ni - ftlH 5.-QD *

■Jih v"ir ■ivnil c-*cj rr.Hr ill < phn.-wi -:r ■.■:!?! on nili*«i>

t] ORDER NOW!!! ”

MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!

'mrvz lBuu> =■ iPnmmtor hr

SttK LnUu. PO. Dra
FDPfiMM Bo»0r|| floridH 330Ei

_ 1 ImUb \%i n^h cy**

_ Special, Buy 2 Bottles get 3rd FREE $29.90 + S&H

_ Add $10.00 for Priority Mall

_ International orders add 25%, (C.O.D.'s U.S, only)

_ I well f, ^Ir-mg •■Mih ^'tyiyir

~ ~ —

Address:

City, State, Zip:_

Phono: },_

FREE BROCHURE

WHAT YOU CAN’T
SEE

Silver Greek

INDUS TRIES

A Sound Advantage

Wide range of sound amplifiers for hunting
& surveillance

1 - 800 - 533-3277

P.0. Box 1988 Manitowoc, Wl 54221

tniied
SnfnisTt
East Hfrica Util
Mil Afrits

STEROIDS

BADGE

INCLUDED WITH
COURSE .

AND EARN
^ YOUR RADGE

^0 EXPERIENCE NEEDED

Record telephone conversations in your office or
home. Starts automatically when phone is
answered, records both sides of phone conversa¬
tion. Recorder stops when phone is hung up.
$99.95 + $7 shipping. For telephone listening
device separately $19.95 + $2 ship.

VERY POWERFUL FM TRANSMITTER

Transmits to any FM
\ radio up to 1/2 mi.

\ Easy to assemble kit.

\ Up to 9V (not Incl.)
^^ $29.95 + $2 sh.

For comprehensive 50 page catalog of Micro Video,
VHF transmitters, Surveillance and Counter¬
surveillance and much more! Send $3.00.

CALL 407-725-1000

USI CORR

P.O. Box SF2052 Melbourne, FL 32902

COD'S OK

MENS WOMEN!

Train at home for an exciting part
or full-time career as a Private
Detective. Start your own agency
or work for others. Learn all the
latest techniques from the
experts. Taught by former mili¬
tary intelligence specialists,
police and private detectives.
The only course of its kind, the
unique Global School of
Investigation program wiii make
you a PRIVATE DETECTIVE.

i THE SECRETS
to making money
WITHOUT a license
nr experience.

The biggest, most
amazing home
study course ever
offered. Learn how
to make money and |
become a Private
Investigator.
GUARANTEED!

. i_~1" i= i

TO BE TAKEN Orally. Best results, apply proper training.

1. ATDC™ is used to dramatically increase
testosterone levels up to 337%. Higher
testosterone levels means faster, easier
muscle growth.

2 month cycle $29.95

2. Boron is another product that has been
used by serious body builders all over the
world to raise testosterone levels up to
300%.

3 month cycle $14.95

3. G.H.R.X. releases growth hormone in an
abundance like no other. Extraordinary
results are expected when combining
testosterone enhancers like 1-2.

60 Tabs $21.00

4. L.S.C. is a very potent product with a
combination of sterols, aminos, electrolttes
and much more. This finishing product has
been used to build muscle, strip away fat,
and get a tremendous pump.

60 Tabs $19.95

PURCHASE PRODUCTS 1,2,3 and receive #4
FREEI

Gcr Jhe rrrasl poirarW x'lntFfit stxcM nrr the market $65.90

H 1-888-33 PVT EYE
ESI 413-584-2140

CAPITALIZE
ON CRIME

oiir ptmarr e:h rsvar \hu pnonn ei arnir bp ciul

1 ORDER NOW!!! 1-800-275-7822
MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!

mum:

EEK. Labs. P.D.3025
Pomparm Dench. ifcirdn Bflfrl

JCTDC 2 mnnlm eyefe 5K 11 1 HJM 5th nr
Boron 3 mnT* + 55 30 *r iw*-

5 ii n J M TflM f? i rm + Kkm EAn « ^ n.

1$ M T-™ IU + tohu SE H (w uh

Special Etiy-2 BiillliiJi-juMlIl FREEi-iE-.M -VOK 5SH

Add K illijlMLi F' miilv Mdii

l-ryinilkj-Jl vrUri OOH 2E\. [lLOXL'I U.E. -IT 1 1. ■

I wt,dU iks □ filEE ‘LiTJk'y v.+lti mv -nukr

W FREE
WHOLESALE
^ CATALOG

It Can

fU ; Pay HUGE

Profits! J

Crime Prevention is a
Baa? * Multi-million Dollar Business!
Larry Anderson OUR DEVICES SELL LIKE CRAZY!

President

We carry the best line of security sprays, stun guns,
personal sound alarms, burglar alarms and much more.
We specialize in offering the best security products at
the very best wholesale prices.

We can meet or beat any price on the market.

A 10% Pepper Sprays

f 4 oz.
Fogger

Retail $22.95
Sample $6.25

Key Chain Sprayer
Retail $19.95
Sample $4.25

CALL OR WRITE TODAY

We are committed to your success.^
Crime does not wait, will you?

1-BOO-521-7977

FREE CATALOG

MILITARY • TACTICAL • ADVENTURER

BDUs • M65 Field Coats
Combat & Automatic Knives
Boots • Alice Packs
Leather Jackets • T-Shirts
Anti More

7215 Kingston Pike
Knoxville, TN 37919

International Orders Welcomed

= m

BE A PARALEGAL!

Attorney-instructed home study course.

Train now for one of America’s fastest grow
ing careers. Free literature: send or call.

CALL TODAY: 800-223-4542

Add row_

City/State_ Zip_

School of Paralegal Studies, Dept. LLJ171
PCDI, 430 Tech. Pkwy., Norcross, GA 30092

Outdoor Careers!

Home study. Train for great careers in forestry, con¬
servation, wildlife, parks, ranges, preserves. Free
career literature: send or call 24 hours a day.

' Call Now: 800-2234542

Need NEW ID?

NOW YOU CAN GET...

ID by MAIL >

20 S0URCES-FULLY ILLUSTRATED

• Birth and Baptismal Certificates

• Drivers Licenses (blank)—50 States

• Blank Social Security Cards

• College Degrees—Bachelors, MA, PhD

• High School Diplomas, also GED

• Photo ID Cards—all 50 States

• “Professional” ID Cards—over 200 Styles

• Job Reference Kits, Past W-2 Forms

• Foreign & Camouflage Passports

• Police/Military ID and Patches

• Photographer ID, Press Credentials

• Embossing Seals, Rubber Stamps

• “Do-It-Yourself” ID Kits

• Secured MasterCard at 2X Deposit

ALL-NEW 64-PG. BOOK! --

ID by MAIL

$ 24.95

Cash, Check, Money Order,
Visa/MC accepted, No CODs

EDEN PRESS

Box 8410-AD
Fountain Valley, CA 92728

□ Latest Book Catalog FREE
Name_

L.A. LAW ENFORCERS

209 W. Walnut ■ Yakima, WA 98902
(509)-457-9033 • Website: lalawenforcers.com

City/Stata_Zip_

School of Conservation, Dept. NNJ171
PCDI, 430 Tech. Pky., Norcross, GA 30092

SOLDIER OF Fortune Classifieds Get Results! Start getting your results at only $3 per word per insertion, $60 minimum.
Prepay two months for 10% discount; six months for 20% discount; or 12 months for 30% off. Repeat your same ad in another
section for haif price. “Dingbats” (✓,•;■ ), bold words (other than first 3-4): $5.00/each extra. Computer word count of gram-
maticaliy correct copy. EXAMPLE: PO Box 693 = 3 words; 80306 and 303-449-3750, etc. each « 1 word; abbreviations such
as Dl, SGT, 20mm = 1 word. No ads accepted by telephone. Ad copy must be typed. Include authorizing signature, mailing
address, telephone or fax number (for our files). Mail classified ads with payment (check, wire transfer, money order or
Visa/MC) to SOF, Attn: Classified Dept., 5735 Arapahoe Ave., Suite A-5, Boulder, CO 80303. Phone: 303-449-3750; fax: 303-
444-5617; e-mail: barbara@sofmag.com.

NOTICE To ADVERTISERS: We reserve the right to refuse any ad for any reason and to delete or change any copy that we con¬
sider objectionable, false or in poor taste. It is our policy not to accept advertisements for personal services, including ‘will do any¬
thing’or‘go anywhere’type ads. Advertisers offering information packets for a fee must send sample (non-returnable).

U U.S. GOVERNMENT LAND Q

Federally owned land currently available in AK, AZ, AR, CA,
CO. ID. MT. NV. NM. OR, UT. WA, WY for $2.50 per acre.
U.S. citizens entitled to purchase up to 160 acres per
person. For complete information package including maps,
telephone helpline, filing forms, etc. send $20 check or money
order to: FEDERAL LAND CO., Dept L, Box 21598,
Washington, DC 20009. (Note: this is not homestead¬
ing - lands are sold outright.) MONEYBACK GUARANTEE!

IP RI VAT E EYE

Have a life of intrigue,
excitement, adventure!
Learn from the REAL
experts:

Investigation • Surveillance • Skiptracing
Start Your Own Business
State Approved • Diploma Awarded

Free Brochure! United States Academy

Call Or Write of Private Investigation

I'X 1 11 P.O. Box 2133 (SF)

(31U) 657-5333 Beverly Hills, CA 90213

VISIT OUR SPY SHOP

“On The World Wide Web”

www.spytechagency.com

“On The Sunset Strip”

8519-8521 W.SunsetBlvd.

West Hollywood, CA 90069
- Web Site Features -
PI Agency • PI Academy * Spy Shop

Online over 2500 investigation - surveillance
countermeasure products, books & videos!!

BRITISH/SCOTTISH REGIMENTAL
INSIGNIA & ACCESSORIES ETC

• PARA • ROYAL MARINES
» GUARDS • BLACK WATCH ETC

45 PAGE ILLUSTRATED IMPORT CATALOG $6.00

) BRITISH REGALIA IMPORTS

/ Department 6, P.O. Box 37

Palm Harbor, FL 34682_

BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

0 MANUSCRIPTS WANTED FOR PUBLICA¬
TION- All subjects to include, Military Fiction,
Weird, Off-The-Wall, How-To. Original material
only! Send SASE for returns. VICTORY BOOKS,
P.O. Box 997, Columbus, Indiana 47202.

FS BOOK COMPANY
P.O. BOX 417457, DEPT SF
SACRAMENTO, CA S5841-7457
Free Shipping! Fast Service! \

How to Gel Anything on Anybody*.$30

The Whole Spy Catalog*.$45

Divorce Tactics for Men.$20

The Anarchist Cookbook.$30

Get Even: Complete Book of Dirty Tricks $20
Homemade Guns & Homemade Ammo... $15
The Poor Man’s James Bond #1*, or #2\.$30
Ragnar’s Book of Homemade Weapons*. $25

Shadowing and Surveillance.$17

Privacy, How to Get It, How to Enjoy It.... $18

Secrets of a Super Hacker..$20

Counterfeit I.D. Made Easy.$16

The Rip-off Book...$15 New ID In America...$17
The Outlaw's Bible..$20The Paper Trip l.$17
Reborn In The U.S.A..$16 Armed Defense^?
Ditching Your Debts...$15 I.D. By Mail.*.. S20
How to Buy Land Cheap.$15 Silent Death.$17
WE SPECIALIZE IN DRUG EDUCATION BOOKS |
MANY CENSORED TITLES WE CAN’T LIST!

FAX 1-916-771 -4201 FS Catalog.$2

Adults Only! CA Res. Add 7.75%

Air Mail Delivery Add $3 F’er Book (USA),
Canada Add $5, Europe Add $10, Per Book.
♦DOUBLE THE SHIPPING ON THIS TITLE.
All Orders Are Shipped In A Plain Package.

$3 Pro. Fee On Credit Card Orders.
Credit Card Orders 1-800-635-8883
Customer Service 1-916-771-4203
http :!i www.fsbookco.com
SERVING YOU SINCE 1985

SHOCKING PLANS! 190+ Publications.
Impossible to find underground info! Hacking,
revenge, moneymaking and lots more. Very unusu¬
al stuff! Free catalog. TIC P.O. Box 876SF, Hurst,
Texas 76053. www.theinformationcenter.com

BECOME A PUBLISHED AUTHOR- 75-year tradi-
tion of quality book publishing, promotion, distribu¬
tion. “Author’s Guide to Subsidy Book Publishing” 1-
800-695-9599.

ILLEGAL POLICE SURVEILLANCE- The ulti-
mate book on how Big Brother spies on innocent

1999 ADVERTISING DEADLINES

ISSUE AD DEADLINE

ON SALE DATE

October 7 July

31 August

November 4 August

28 September

December 2 September

26 October

DYSARTS WOLF KENNEL

MacKENZIE VALLEY
TIMBERWOLVES

^ y 2 wolf-Yzshep. cubs
bred for protection, or
% and up cubs. Have
\ v * ' n a true friend... own a

• “ wolf-shepherd.

Brochure with 20
5 photos ~ $5.00

CHARLES DYSART, JR
BOX 597 Henrietta, NC 28076

(828) 657-6220 (828) 657-9273

DRIVER'S LICENSE

LEARN HOW YOU CAN GET A LEGAL
DRIVER'S LICENSE FAST AND EASY.
NEW AND UNIQUE METHOD WORKS
EVERYTIME REGARDLESS OF YOUR
PAST RECORD. 100% GUARANTEED.

QUALITY RESEARCH, DEPT S8
P.O. BOX 192, LINCOLN PARK.MICHiGAN 48146

citizens. Wiretaps and bugs-how they work, differ¬
ent types, photos, methods of concealment.
Debugging equipment and ways to find surveil¬
lance devices including slave taps, spread spec¬
trum bugs, infrared and laser bugs, wired micro¬
phones and hidden video cameras. Details of
government black lists, NSA domestic spy opera¬
tions and many other secrets your government
doesn’t want you to know about! 81/2" x 11",
152/p. Order from Comet Press, PO Box 31421,
Dayton, OH 45437-0421. Only $24.95 plus $4.00
shipping in the U.S.

✓ SOLDIER OF fortune; RUSSIA! Collectors
Item, published in Moscow. Various months.
Invaluable resource for researchers, military and

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ^ AUGUST 1999

NUDISM LIFESTYLE:

FAMILY RECREATION

Publications • Videos

$3 for details:

LIFESTYLES-SF

Box 661268, Los Angeies, CA 90066

• HAT PINS* MEDALS •

• FREE COLOR CATALOG

• 2500+Military Designs

• Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines

• Call now! Toll-free!
1-888-223-1159

• Custom pins & patches available.
Dealer inquiries welcome.

HONORS

by Hoover’s Mfg., Co.

P.O.Box 547SF, Peru, IL 61354
Fax: 1 -815-223-1499

Need NEW ID O

CREDIT * PRIVACY •

OUR BOOKS HELP YOU GET: New identity & credit.
■Jobs in 48 hours. College degrees. ID by mail.
■Cash income. Private loans. Foreign passports.
FREE 40 pg. PRIVACY CATALOG: 800-338-8484
EDEN PRESS-Box 8410-HB-Fountain Valley, CA 92728

intelligence professionals. Printed in Russian only.
$5.00 each/3 for $12. Overseas, add $3 for first
issue and $1.00 each after for Priority Mail. SOF
Back Issues, 5735 Arapahoe Ave. Suite A-5,
Boulder, CO 80303-1340. WWW.SOFMAG.COM

■ FIFTEEN'BLONDE, BEAUTIFUL , at war with
the Bolsheviks - historical novel by Bert Byfield -
$12 postpaid FREE Information - Caravela Books
S093,134 Goodburlet Road, Henrietta, NY 14467,
http 7/use rs.aol.com/caravela99

MEN OF ACTION AND ADVENTURE - Paladin
Press has been described as ‘The most dangerous
press in America.” Millions of satisfied readers dis¬
agree. Outrageous and controversial books and
videos on firearms, exotic weaponry, new identity,
creative revenge, espionage and investigation, pri¬
vacy, personal freedom, action careers, and more!
To order our 80-page catalog describing over 800
titles, send $2.00 to: Paladin Press, Box 1307-
8AQK, Boulder, CO 80306, (800) 392-2400, e-mail
service@paladin-press.com. Visit our Web site at
www.paladin-press.com.

WHO KILLED KENNEDY? Government assassi-
nation conspiracy exposed. Videocassettes, manu¬
scripts, photographs, books. Catalog: $3.00. COL¬
LECTOR’S ARCHIVES; Box 2, Beaconsfield,
Quebec. H9W 5T6 CANADA

CORRESPONDENCE COURSES AND MILITARY
MANUALS. Combat Skills, Weapons, Tactics,
NBC, more. Catalog $5.00. 1IPD/ACCP, Box 1237,
Alpine, TX 79830

■ Did this get your attention? It’s a “Dingbat.” So
are ✓ and #. Add them to your SOF classified ad
for $5/each.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

LET THE GOVERNMENT FINANCE your new or
existing small business. Grants/loans to
$800,000.00. Free recorded message: (707) 449-
8600 (KW5)

PARTS, KITS

PANTHER

13983 industry Avenue
Becker, MN SS308
PHONE 1-612-261-5600
FAX 1-612-261-5599
www.dpmsinc.com
e-mail: dpmsinc@aol.com
Business Hours:

M-F 8 a,m. to 5:00 p.m, Central lime

LOST DOCUMENTS REPLACED

SEND $2.00 for 8-PAGE CATALOG
MILITARY AWARDS / CERTIFICATES / MEDALS
UNIVERSITY / COLLEGE / HIGH SCHOOL
FOR ENTERTAINMENT & COLLECTORS

Couch Potato Publishing

443 FOX RUN DRIVE, BLUE RIDGE, GA 30513

Built to last

SKEJkipffijn Spring

Inventory
Sale

SAVE ON SELECT SIZES

► America's #1 Arch-Type Manufacturer 25X34 * 30X46

• 20 Year Warranty mhvca cnvi 14

* Easy Financing Available WAOO * 00AIIO

■ Easy Do-It-Yourself Construction

Page Brochure STEEIJhIcISTER

Call Today 1800 526-1110

COLLECTORS

AFRICAN RARE- Uniforms, Angolan, Cuban,
Rhodesian, SA Patches, Wings. Send $20.00 for
color brochure to: Apocalypse, PO Box 55575,
Wierda Park, 0149, Republic of South Africa.

BRITISH/SCOTTISH MILITARIA COLLECTORS.

Regimental insignia and accessories of elite
Regiments; including SAS; Paratroops; Royal
Marines; Black Watch; Guards, etc. 45-page illus¬
trated Import Catalog $6.00. BRITISH REGALIA
IMPORTS, Department 6A, PO Box 37, Palm
Harbor, FL 34682.

MILITARY COLLECTIBLES CATALOG 1900 TO
PRESENT, LEE-JACKSON MILITARIA, P.O. Box
8663, San Jose, CA 95155. Call 408-295-1136 or
fax 408-288-6350 (mailing charges: foreign $8.00,
domestic $5.00) credit cards accepted, U. S.
Militaria wanted! UMILITARY@AOL.COM

VIETNAM WAR INSIGNIA, Uniforms, Books,
Blades and Field Gear. Check my website and shop
24 hours a day, everyday. All items guaranteed.
www.brooksmilitaria.com

✓ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE BACK ISSUES ARE

available. Most years/issues still in stock. Only $5
each includes domestic S&H. Write, fax or e-mail
to request comprehensive list. SOF Back Issues,
5735 Arapahoe, Suite A-5, Boulder, CO 80303.
Fax: 303-444-5617; e-mail: barbara@sofmag.
com. NEW! View detailed list of all back issues
and order on-line at WWW.SOFMAG.COM

CABLE DESCRAMBLER
KIT —$14.95

See all the premium and
pay-per-view channels.

Why pay hundreds more?
800-752-1389

PROTECT YOUR 6L0GK

From DIRT DUST GRIT
RAIN SNOW SNAGS etc.
entering the hollow
backstrap that is open
ALL THE WAY to the
pistol's internal action!!

“THE PLUG” installs or
removes in a second on

MODELS 17-19-20-21 -22-23-24-25-31 -32-34-35

Does NOT permanently alter pistol or interfere with magazine]
insertion or ejection. Improves the look & feel of the GLOCK.

DEPT. APPROVED & CARRIED ON DUTY BY POLICE

ACROSS THE U S A. ORDER NOW AT ONLY

VISA, M/C, $ 5.00 plus $1.25 shpng/hndlng

AMEX DISC (foreign orders $10 cerL U.S.)

call 570-669-7027 ( orders only ) Mon to Sat 9am-11pm EST
Or mail check or money order to:

O.W.L. ENTERPRISES, Box 146, Nesquehoning, PA 18240

GABLE T.V.

DESCRA

RLE

AND TEST CHIPS

All major brands.
30-day money back guarantee.
1-year warranty.

JCB ELECTRONICS

1 - 800 - 579-3285

EDUCATION

TERMPAPER assistance. 19,278 topics available!
306-Page catalog-rush $2.00. Research, 11322
Idaho, #206EX, Los Angeles 90025. TOLL-FREE
HOTLINE: 800-351-0222 or www.research-assis-
tance.com

FINANCIAL

MONEY AVAILABLE NOW! Let the Government
Finance your business idea. Satisfaction
Guaranteed. We have the answers! Call Toll Free:
1-800-226-3601, Extension BF7770.

FREE

FREE CONSPIRACY JOURNAL. What the gov¬
ernment doesn’t want you to know. New World
Order. Time Travel. UFO’s. Y2K. Invisibility. 1-800-
700-4024. www.members.tripod.com/uforeview

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Cable TV Boxes

Descramblers

Absolutely the Lowest Prices!

AH Major Brands

90-Day Money-back / 2-year Warranty
Nobody Beats Our Prices Ever
AAA Electronics • 1-888-929-8669

PHOTO /.P. CARDS

Birth Certificates
High School Diplomas
College Degrees
Trade School Diplomas
Martial Arts Certificates
Investigator, Security Certificates
Marriage, Divorce Certificates
Much More!

Call Now! FREE BROCHURE!
1-702-471-4444
M.P.C.

SURVIVAL

TECH

DO IT YOURSELF
FOOD STORAGE

• MYLAR BAGS

• BAG SEALERS

• OXYGEN ABSORBERS

• DESSICANT BAGS

• BAYGEN • STARLIGHT
• ALCO-BRITE • AQUA RAIN

www.survival-tech.com

1 - 800 - 445 - 3453

FREE SURVIVING GLOBAL SLAVERY, a 160

page book, a $13.95 value plus a 64 page color cat¬
alog FREE! Send $3.00 for shipping to Delta Press,
Dept SF22, Box 1625, EIDorado, AR 71731-1625

FREE CRIMINAL USE OF FALSE ID, a 49 page
book. An $11.95 value plus a FREE 64 page color
catalog! Send $3.00 for shipping to Desert
Publications, Dept SF23, Box 1751, EIDorado, AR,
71731

FREE BLACK BOOK OF REVENGE, a 112 page
book. A $13.95 value plus a FREE 48 page color
catalog! Send $3.00 for shipping to Firequest, Dept
SF24, Box 315, EIDorado, AR, 71731-0315

INVESTIGATION

PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS TEXTBOOK and
BOUNTY HUNTERS TEXTBOOK: Is this business
for you? How to get into it. How to do the job.
Everything you need to know! Written by 27 year
veteran Private Investigator and teacher, Robert
Nixon. Private I. Textbook: $35 plus $3.00 S&H,
Bounty H.Textbook: $30.00 plus $3.00 S&H. Check
or Money Order to: RNA, PO Box 7045,
Philadelphia, PA 19149

WORLDWIDE LOCATORS reveal how anyone can
legally determine the name and identity behind any
telephone number, anywhere! (Cellular/Beeper/

WORLD'S LARGEST - '
SURPLUS MARKET

for used military vehicles:
jeeps, tanks, HMMWVs
military trucks, more.

100’s of ads, tech tips,
how-to, articles, event
listings, much more!

MILITARY

VEHICLES

GESQSB

1 year (six BIG 100+ page issues)
USA $18, Canada $28, (Sample $5)
12-L2 Indionhead, Morristown, NJ 07960

BUSHPILOT WINGS

BADGE QUALITY - CORROSION FREE RHODIUM
Send $9.95 to: BUSHPILOT

P.O. Box 211296
Bedford, TX 76095-8296
Catalog with purchase - Allow 4-6 weeks
http://www.bushwings.com

Italian Cane Corse Mastiffs

Rare antique working dogs from Italy that
date back over 2000 years to the Roman
Molosus (the baddest war, and fighting dog, of
all time). The Corso is the only coursing hunt¬
ing mastiff in existence today. With lightning
speed, agility, and a willingness to
defend family and property with
their life, this is the
ultimate working and
companion dog. Worldwide
shipping, calls welcomed
for info and pictures.

Call 870-773-4117
I or 870-774-0853 or
e-mail dlholmes1@excite.com

800/Listed/Unlisted/Non-Published/Private).
Confidential. Affordable. Results Guaranteed!
$10.00 to PhoneTech, PO Box 7503 Talleyville, DE
19803, http//www.phonetech.com

KNIVES - BAYONETS

COLD STEEL Spyderco, Gerber, SOG,
Benchmade, Smith & Wesson and more. Huge dis¬
counts! Free list. KNIVES PLUS MAIL ORDER,
(800) 687-6202

MEDICAL

MEDICAL KITS/COMPLETE FIELD SURGICAL
KITS: Medications, Sutures, Trauma Dressings,
Skin Staplers, hard to find adventure products. No
expired surplus, all new medical supplies. BEST
PRICES. Call for free 48pg catalog. C.A.M.P. 1-800-
916-2267, www.campstuff.com

MILITARY EVENTS,

AIR SHOWS & REUNIONS

Be a DETEC

Explore a secret world! Fascinating
new career.Experience a new
adventure every day.

Dynamic home study course.

Diploma, Badge. State approved.

FREE DETECTIVE CAREER KIT

1 - 800 - 742-9007 E ,..30t

DETECTIVE TRAINING Box 909»San Juan Capo., CA 92693

FREEDOM OCOKTRY

20 big acres in WESTERN MONTANA, starting at
$19,950.00. Trout fishing, backpacking, camping, Elk,
deer, moose, bear. ADJACENT to National Forest, near
established towns. Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks
nearby. GUARANTEED ACCESS, INSURED TITLE,
WARRANTY DEED. FREE color brochure, photos, maps.
FULL MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
“Video Available”

CALL TOLL-FREE 1-800-592-5990
TREASURE STATE RANCHES
210 Milwaukee Street, Dept. S
Deer Lodge, Montana 59722 — (406) 846-1000_

month, half price, for any legitimate reunion, mili¬
tary base open-house, air show, battle re-enact¬
ment, firepower demonstration or similar military
event. Non-commercial events only; standard rate
applies to for-profit events. WWW.SOFMAG.COM

MISCELLANEOUS

COMPUTER SECURITY AND THE HACKER:

How they do it. How you can stop them. All fully
explained with easy, how-to examples. You get
more than 600 megabytes of the very latest,
security breaching, computer programs that you
can use to test your system. NT, WIN9X, UNIX,
Novell, Internet, E-mail, packet grabbers, sniffers,
password crackers and much more. Master the
information on this CDROM to get your CSC
Certification. Send $59.00 (Includes S&H) to:
Results Technical, P.O. Box 332, Benicia, CA
94510

LET THE GOVERNMENT PAY for your new or
existing home. Over 100 different programs avail¬
able. Free recorded message: (707) 448-3210.
(8KW5)

WANT ALTERNATE USA ID? Privacy, protection,
peace of mind for only $1493.00. Now call Charles
M. Gordon, 704-348-1528, 24 hours a day. Strictly
confidential consulting services. Don’t call until you
are ready with available funds.

■ Did this get your attention? It’s a “Dingbat." So
are ✓ and #. Add them to your SOF classified ad
for $5/each.

M-1 GARAND RIFLES FROM THE US ARMY.

Fully operational from Federal arsenals. Thousands
sold! Complete instructions: $5.00, SASE to:T&G
Enterprises, P.O. Box 914, Prospect, KY 40014,
http://hometown.aol.com/jjack85057/ ml rifle.html

MINE, GRENADE & FIREARMS POSTERS: 50+

set; single posters and poster books available.
Securesearch, Inc., 3500 Pharmacy, U-4, Toronto,
ON., Canada Ml W 2T6. (1-416) 492-5349, Fax:
(1-416) 492-3656

INTERNET SECRETS: Learn to take control of
another computer over the internet! 1-900-407-
2020 ext. 7164. $2.99 per minute. Must be 18 years,
serv-u 619-645-8434 http://members.
aol.com/WarSurplus/asoldiershumor.html.

# Attention Military, Veterans: SOLDIER OF AR15/M16 OWNERS- you need our FREE sales
FORTUNE will run a 30-word notice here for one flyer! Call 702-650-8576. 24 hrs.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE X AUGUST 1999

INFORMATION SERVICES

Know who you are dealing with?

Locate Telephone Number and Addres¬
ses, Identity Verification, Criminal
Records Checks, Motor Vehicle
Reports, Background Checks, Busi¬
ness Reports, Marriage and Death
Records, More. Contact:

JGS Inc.

P.O. Box 120176,

Staten Island, New York 10312-0176
718-984-9012, Fax: 718-356-7256

CHECK IT OUT!

SOF’s all-new,
updated, upgraded,
redesigned website

WWW.SOFMAO.COM

LYME DISEASE treatment endorsed by The
National Foundation for Alternative Medicine.
Antibiotics don’t work. We pioneered chemical
detox treatments. BMP Resources, Inc. New
Orleans-Cosumel (504) 522-6599. www.bmpre-
sources.com

50,000 MAPS: Topographic, Tactical Quads,
Travel, Political, Vietnam, Nevis, Roswell,
Anyplacel 7700 Air Photos. Catalog $4.00
(refundable). MONARCH, Box 42003-203F,
Phoenix, AZ 85080

PREPAREDNESS

■ Y2K FOOD. Be prepared with our variety of deli¬
cious shelf-stable entrees. www.tastyfood4Y2K.
com, 1-800-281-9755

BUILD YOU OWN FREE ENERGY GENERATOR^

For illustrated designs send $2.00 and SASE to
Argus, P.O. Box 520421, Independence, Missouri,
64052

BE PREPARED! SOLAR/DYNAMO am/fm radio
never needs batteries. Only $39.98 plus $4.00
S/H to Red Dot CO., P.O. Box 3, Woodacre, CA,
94973. Credit card orders ph (415)488-0800, fax
(415)488-1938

STORM SHELTERS: Storage-Tornado-Prepar-
edness. Lightweight, durable polymer. Made in
Indiana, (website) psyber.com/biz/thehive, (e-mail)
thehive@JPS.net For information call: 530-272-
4574.

REAL ESTATE

REMOTE ALASKA SURVIVALIST/Militia Head¬
quarters and Training Camp. Surrounded by lake
and public land - http: //www.AlaskaMall.
comA/iapan - FAX 1-907-583-2162

REMAILING SERVICES

✓ COMPLETELY CONFIDENTIAL MAIL
RECEIVING/FORWARDING, street address in
Income Tax Free Florida. Remails,- Fax
receiving/sending. Wilton Manors Postal 52 W.
Oakland Park Blvd., Suite SOF, Wilton Manors, FL,
33311-2520

ITALIAN PROP CONS

Fires Like The Real Thing!

3 Pc. CHIEF SPECIAL Complete $49.00

'CHIEF” + HOLSTER + 100 ROUNDS AMMO 1

(No P0 Boxes) Check, M.O., MasterCard, Visa. Discover, Amex|

MAXSELL COW • P.O. BOX 23021 »IT. MID, H 33307 • (954) 58-1480

No Permit Required • Fires Blank 22 cal. (6mm blanks)

Visit Our Web Site:
http://www.mAXselI.com

SECURE ONLINE ORDERING

GET THE MOST
DANGEROUS BOOK
IN THE WORLD!!

The International Underground Directory lists the insider
sources for • Anonymous bank accounts, credit cards •
Cheap surveillance gear • Legal second passports •
Equipment to open locks in under seven seconds, plus
master keys for cars • Free phone-calls • Seif defence
gadgets * Smart nutrients • Computer viruses that will
destroy your enemies in seconds • Controversial
underground/financial magazines, you won't find these
advertised • A new identity • Speed trap detectors • ID
papers • Anonymous mobile phones • Discover the
secrets on computer hacking, banking, credit card &
ATM scams & other frauds • Network with freedom i
minded folk • Find out about insider privacy secrets and
become free • Plus much, much more.

“Your directory was a goldmine of essential information.

I loved itr Lt. Lawrence Frego, Florida.

30 DAY NO-RISK MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

Send check, MO, cash for $24.99 including shipping, nor¬
mally $60.00 made payable to Megastep, 4951 Netarts

Hwy W., PMB 2134/S6, Tillamook, OR 97141-9467, USA

SOLD STRICTLY FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. MISUSE MAY BE ILLEGAL.

SURVEILLANCE

COUNTERSURVEILLANCE
Electronic Devices

• Spy Pinhole Cameras $99 00

• Wireless Video • Voice Changer

» Micro Recorders • Bug and Phone
Tap Detectors • Locksmithing
• Phone Call Register • Shotgun Mies
•Realtime 15 Hour Telephone
Recording System $149 00
■ Vehicle Tracking System • And more...
Catalog $5°°

We will not be undersold
www.spyoutlet.com

SPY OUTLET

P.O. Box 337, Buffalo NY 14226
(716) 695-8660 / 691-3476

Y2K PRODUCTS

* MRE’SaiSGDw/ heaters $70/12 + shipping

MILLENNIUM BEAN MIXES

* One man month in a stackable bucket

* Choose Millennium Bean, Pea, Rice, Chili,

* or Minestrone. $40/60 servings

* 3600 Calorie Food Bars $65/12

* MRE Chocolate Brownies $100/100

* MRE Wheat Snack Bread $60/80

* MRE Poundcakes $75/100 Assorted

Catalog $2 Survival Checklist $5
PONDEROSA SPORTS & MERCANTILE
6854 Highway 55 208-793-3121
_Horseshoe Bend, Idaho 83629_

SURPLUS

GOVERNMENT AUCTIONS in your area! Must
sell: Cars, trucks, computers, more! Great deals!
Call Now Toll Free: 1-800-601-2212, ext. SP7770.

TRAINING

ADVANCED-HARDCORE TRAINING- Increase
your Speed-Power-Stamina. Send $12.00 to
Extreme Power, PO Box 1370, Pearl City, HI,
96782, www.issatrainer.com/greg-juliano

MARITIME SECURITY and Executive Protection,
Technical Surveillance, Counter-Intelligence,
Career Development, Armorers Courses/Training.
Call Enterprising Securities (770) 723-0773 or
www.enterprisingsecurities.com

WANTED

FREEDOM LOVERS. Learn how to legally reduce
business/personal and capital gains taxes. Become
lien, levy and judgement proof while earning spec¬
tacular income immediately. 24 hour message. 1-
800-576-2285.

WANTED- Executive Protection Professionals.
International Networking for contacts and employ¬
ment. Send $20.00 for infopak to: BASECA, P.O.
Box 646, Essex Fells, N.J. 07021.

BOUNTY HUNTERS - SKIP TRACERS WANTED,

100K plus annually. Training, networking, national
association, www.bountyhunt.com Details 210-
690-7790.

WWW.SURViVALSTORE.COM

1 Catalog sz.oo Brass Kiidte Papemights

WEBSITES

FOR ONLY $25/month you can list your Website
or Internet URL + 10 words right here. This is a
great way to get out the word on your site!

HOW TO STORE GUNS, AMMO, FOOD for DAYS
or DECADES, www.prespak.com

INEXPENSIVE WATERKITS for water purification
and chlorinating, treats 3,000 gallons.
http://www.wn.com.au/y2k

✓ GOOD TO GO- Helping Prepare the Unpre¬
pared. Are you ready? www.GOOD-2-GO.com

NIGHT VISION BINOCULARS- Russian made. No
artificial light source needed! www.1minimall.com

MILITARY & POLICE PATCHES - Sales and man-
ufacturing, official items at SFSPatches.
WEB>http:wwwaad1 .com/sfs

Y2K: WATER FILTERS, BARRELS, Pumps, Grain
Mills, Organic Grains. 1-800-705-3479.
www.wheatandgrain.com

BERT BYFIELD novels, current events, politics-
check out Caravela Books http://users.aol.com/car-
avela99

AUGUST 1999 ^ SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

Clark and Vietnam II

N ATO’s Wesley Clark is not the
Iron Duke. Nor is he “Stormin’

Norman.” Unlike Wellington
and Schwarzkopf, Clark is not
a muddy boots soldier. He’s a military
politician, without the right stuff to pro¬
duce victory over Serbia.

Known by those who’ve served with
him as the “Ultimate Perfumed Prince,”
he’s far more comfortable in a drawing
room discussing political theories than
hunkering down in the trenches where
bullets fly and soldiers die. An intellectu¬
al in warrior’s gear.

A saying attributed to General
George Patton was that it took 10 years
with troops, alone, before an officer
knew how to empty a bucket of spit. As
a serving soldier with 33 years of active
duty under his pistol belt, Clark’s com¬
manded combat units — rifle platoon to
tank division — for only seven years.

The rest of his career’s been spent as an
aide, an executive, a student, a teacher
and a staff weenie.

Very much like Generals Maxwell
Taylor and William Westmoreland, the
architect and carpenter of the Vietnam
disaster, Clark was earmarked, and then
groomed, early in his career for big
things. At West Point he graduated No. 1
in his class, and even though the Vietnam
War was raging and chewing up lieu¬
tenants faster than a machine gun can
spit death, he was seconded to Oxford
for two years of contemplating instead of to the trenches to lead
a platoon.

A year after graduating Oxford, he was sent to Vietnam,
where, as a combat leader for several months, he was bloodied
and muddied. Unlike most of his classmates, who did multiple
combat tours in the killing fields of Southeast Asia, he spent the
rest of the war sheltered in the ivy towers of West Point or learn¬
ing power games first-hand as a White House Fellow.

The war with Serbia has been going full-tilt for more than two
months and Clark’s NATO is like a giant standing on a concrete
pad wielding a sledgehammer crushing Serbian ants. Yet, with all
its awesome might, NATO hasn’t won a round. Instead, Milo¬
sevic is still calling all the shots from his Belgrade bunker, and all
that’s left for Clark is to react.

Milosevic plays the fiddle and Clark dances the jig. “Stormin’
Norman,” or any good infantry sergeant major, would have told
Clark that conventional air power alone could never win a war —
it must be accompanied by boots on the ground.

German air power didn’t beat Britain.
Allied air power didn’t beat Germany.
More air power than was used against the
Japanese and Germans combined didn’t
win in Vietnam. Forty-three days of pum-
meling in the open desert where there was
no place to hide didn’t KO Saddam. That
fight ended only when Schwarzkopf
unleashed the steel ground fist he’d care¬
fully positioned before the first bomb fell.

Doing military things exactly back¬
wards, the scholar-general is now, accord¬
ing to a high-ranking Pentagon source, in
“total panic mode” as he tries to mass the
air and ground forces he finally figured
out he needs to win the initiative. Mass is
a principle of war. Clark has violated this
rule along with the other eight vital prin¬
ciples. Any mud soldier will tell you if
you don’t follow the principles of war —
you lose.

One of the salient reasons Wellington
whipped Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo
was that the Corsican piecemealed his
forces. Clark’s done the same thing with
his air power. He started with leisurely
pinpricks and now is attempting to
increase the pain against an opponent
with an almost unlimited pain threshold.
Similar gradualism was one of the rea¬
sons for defeat in Vietnam.

Another mistake Clark’s made is not
knowing his enemy. Taylor and
Westmoreland made this same error in
Vietnam. Like the Vietnamese, the Serbs
are fanatic warriors who know better than to fight conventionally
in open formations. They’ll use the rugged terrain and bomber-
bad weather to conduct the guerrilla operations they’ve been
preparing for over 50 years. And they’re damn good at partisan
warfare. Just ask any German 70 years or older if a fight in Serbia
will be another Desert Storm.

It’s the smart general who knows when to retreat. If Clark lets
pride stand in the way of military judgment, expect a long and
bloody war.

Http://w\vw.hackworth.com is the address of
David Hack worth’s home page.

Hackworth’s best-selling book, Hazardous T>uty\ has topped
90,000 copies in worldwide sales. ^

Col . David Hackworth, (Ret.) also writes a
syndicated weekly column titled “Defending
America” “Hack” doesn't pull any punches
and many liberal rags won't carry his writ¬
ing. If your local paper falls into that cate-
goiy, call the editor and let him know you'd
like to see “Defending America” on the Op-
Ed page . It’s syndicated by King Features ,
235 E. 45 th St., New York, NY 10017.

SOLDIER OF FORTUNE AUGUST 1999

We sell products for Y2K. Unfortunately, so do many
other companies. But fortunately, they charge a
lot more than we do for the things you’ll need.
And now, you’ll be fortunate to know,
we’d like to offer you something else.

off all merchandise for
Soldier of Fortune readers.*

Shop our entire selection ON THE WEB @

www.watertanks.com

Or call toll free for our FREE Spring 1999 Catalog:

1-888-742-6275

And here's a few of the things you can use that discount for:

water barrels • water storage • water treatment • food storage • food systems

• fuel storage • largest selection of alternative energy products / solar & wind-up

• emergency supplies • gas masks • Deep Well Pumps • water filters * candle
lanterns • herbal first aid & medicine • grinders • ozone machines • distillers

Ask us about the our "exclusive" manual deep well pump for depths up to 300 feet.

•Offer good thru August 31, 1999

BUSINESS REPLY MAIL

FIRST-CLASS MAIL _ PERMIT NO. 8 _ MT. MORRIS, IL

POSTAGE WILL BE PAID BY ADDRESSEE

SOLDIER OF
FORTUNE

PO BOX 348

MT MORRIS IL 61054-9817

lillnii.il Him ililiiliill.il i In Iiiii III ml III.. I

j juh’j yuu

'wng

..niimi

+ 9.95s&h

WING COMMANDER
DILOT COMMANDER chronograph

CHRONOGRAPH

When You Build Watthes For Combat Pilots You Bo it like Your life Depends Bn It.

Tens of Thousands Sold. See Why For Yourself.

$179

+ 9.95s&h

• Revolving E6B Flight Computer Bezel • Precision YM55 Quartz Movement

* 7 Hands, 4 Dials, 3 Push-Buttons • Water Resistant to 330 ft *• 6 Hr Elapsed Time

* !/2Gth, Lap, Partial & Split Second Timing • Speed Tachymetre * Sapphire Lens

• Solid Stainless Steel Case & Band * Double Lock Security Clasp * Date Window

• Full Glow Tritium Hands • Screw-in Crown & Back • Flyback Sweep

Credit Card Orders Call: 1,800.544.4365

Ask for operator J10 | >

30 Day Money Back Guarantee • Same Day Shipping

CHASE-DURER Ltd.

270 No. Canon Dr., Department 1402-110 • Beverly Hills, California 90210
Phone: 310.550.7280 / Fax: 310.550.0830 / www.Chase-Durer.com

Internet Archive Audio

Featured

Top

Images

Featured

Top

Software

Featured

Top

Books

Featured

Top

Video

Featured

Top

Mobile Apps

Browser Extensions

Archive-It Subscription

Save Page Now

Full text of "Soldier of Fortune Magazine"

See other formats